Gatewood vs Mount Carbon

A side-by-side comparison of Gatewood and Mount Carbon: population, income, housing, and more.

Gatewood and Mount Carbon are places in West Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Mount Carbon has the higher population (519 vs 443 in Gatewood). Mount Carbon has the higher median home value ($275,000 vs $96,400 in Gatewood). Since 2019, Mount Carbon's population has grown faster (+33.4% vs +9.7%).

Population, income & housing

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
Population	443	519
Median age	31.6 yrs	52.8 yrs
Median household income	$73,914	—
Median home value	$96,400	$275,000
Housing units	167	190
Homeownership rate	100.0%	78.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.2%	35.2%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
Population	404 → 443 (+9.7%)	389 → 519 (+33.4%)
Median household income	$63,443 → $73,914 (+16.5%)	—
Median home value	$84,500 → $96,400 (+14.1%)	$140,300 → $275,000 (+96.0%)

Gatewood

Population

404443

Median household income

$63,443$73,914

Median home value

$84,500$96,400

Mount Carbon

Population

389519

Median home value

$140,300$275,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
Under 5	4.1%	0.0%
5 to 17	17.2%	0.0%
18 to 24	8.6%	19.5%
25 to 34	24.6%	14.5%
35 to 44	6.5%	0.0%
45 to 54	11.3%	19.5%
55 to 64	10.6%	16.6%
65 to 74	17.2%	13.1%
75 and over	0.0%	17.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
White (non-Hispanic)	95.3%	98.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	1.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	4.7%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
No high school diploma	1.9%	21.1%
High school graduate	24.4%	41.4%
Some college or associate's	60.5%	2.4%
Bachelor's degree	3.9%	35.2%
Graduate or professional degree	9.3%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
Drove alone	66.8%	78.3%
Carpooled	28.2%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	21.7%
Other means	5.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
1-unit, detached	82.6%	94.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	5.3%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	17.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Gatewood	Mount Carbon
Poverty rate	1.4%	0.0%
Average household size	2.65	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	26	—
Median year structure built	1938	1979