Hilltop vs Mount Carbon

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

Hilltop 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.

Hilltop has the higher population (655 vs 519 in Mount Carbon). Mount Carbon has the higher median home value ($275,000 vs $61,900 in Hilltop). Since 2019, Mount Carbon's population has grown faster (+33.4% vs -18.9%).

Population, income & housing

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
Population	655	519
Median age	50.2 yrs	52.8 yrs
Median household income	$48,750	—
Median home value	$61,900	$275,000
Housing units	236	190
Homeownership rate	82.5%	78.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	5.4%	35.2%
Unemployment rate	13.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
Population	808 → 655 (-18.9%)	389 → 519 (+33.4%)
Median household income	$71,167 → $48,750 (-31.5%)	—
Median home value	$73,800 → $61,900 (-16.1%)	$140,300 → $275,000 (+96.0%)

Hilltop

Population

808655

Median household income

$71,167$48,750

Median home value

$73,800$61,900

Mount Carbon

Population

389519

Median home value

$140,300$275,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	6.4%	0.0%
18 to 24	8.2%	19.5%
25 to 34	3.2%	14.5%
35 to 44	11.3%	0.0%
45 to 54	29.9%	19.5%
55 to 64	9.6%	16.6%
65 to 74	6.4%	13.1%
75 and over	24.9%	17.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
White (non-Hispanic)	84.0%	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	1.8%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	14.2%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
No high school diploma	19.5%	21.1%
High school graduate	53.8%	41.4%
Some college or associate's	21.3%	2.4%
Bachelor's degree	5.4%	35.2%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
Drove alone	43.0%	78.3%
Carpooled	21.3%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	13.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.1%	21.7%
Other means	9.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
1-unit, detached	85.6%	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	14.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Hilltop	Mount Carbon
Poverty rate	20.7%	0.0%
Average household size	2.50	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	17	—
Median year structure built	1949	1979