Chesapeake vs Coal Fork

A side-by-side comparison of Chesapeake and Coal Fork: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Chesapeake has the higher population (1,615 vs 1,414 in Coal Fork). Coal Fork has the higher median household income ($64,053 vs $60,526 in Chesapeake). Coal Fork has the higher median home value ($101,900 vs $83,100 in Chesapeake).

Population, income & housing

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
Population	1,615	1,414
Median age	41.2 yrs	49.3 yrs
Median household income	$60,526	$64,053
Median home value	$83,100	$101,900
Median gross rent	$979	$1,023
Housing units	774	662
Homeownership rate	74.5%	87.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.7%	12.7%
Unemployment rate	4.7%	31.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
Population	1,915 → 1,615 (-15.7%)	1,157 → 1,414 (+22.2%)
Median household income	$38,550 → $60,526 (+57.0%)	$46,188 → $64,053 (+38.7%)
Median home value	$62,500 → $83,100 (+33.0%)	$78,500 → $101,900 (+29.8%)
Median gross rent	$711 → $979 (+37.7%)	$1,054 → $1,023 (-2.9%)

Chesapeake

Population

1,9151,615

Median household income

$38,550$60,526

Median home value

$62,500$83,100

Median gross rent

$711$979

Coal Fork

Population

1,1571,414

Median household income

$46,188$64,053

Median home value

$78,500$101,900

Median gross rent

$1,054$1,023

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
Under 5	8.4%	1.0%
5 to 17	13.6%	15.8%
18 to 24	7.0%	1.1%
25 to 34	15.0%	17.2%
35 to 44	10.5%	4.5%
45 to 54	16.4%	27.4%
55 to 64	9.5%	9.5%
65 to 74	12.3%	14.4%
75 and over	7.4%	9.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
White (non-Hispanic)	92.3%	92.4%
Black or African American	1.4%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.1%
Asian	0.4%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.3%	0.6%
Hispanic or Latino	0.4%	6.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
No high school diploma	14.4%	12.7%
High school graduate	47.9%	61.8%
Some college or associate's	23.0%	12.7%
Bachelor's degree	14.0%	7.1%
Graduate or professional degree	0.6%	5.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
Drove alone	82.2%	95.7%
Carpooled	11.2%	3.9%
Public transit	0.9%	0.0%
Walked	1.4%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.8%	0.0%
Other means	2.5%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
1-unit, detached	67.4%	76.1%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	4.8%	3.3%
5 to 19 units	0.5%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	27.3%	20.5%

Poverty & households

	Chesapeake	Coal Fork
Poverty rate	18.5%	8.6%
Average household size	2.29	2.51
Mean commute (minutes)	22	23
Median year structure built	1961	1962