Clendenin vs Coal Fork

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

Clendenin 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.

Coal Fork has the higher population (1,414 vs 994 in Clendenin). Coal Fork has the higher median household income ($64,053 vs $49,423 in Clendenin). Coal Fork has the higher median home value ($101,900 vs $81,700 in Clendenin).

Population, income & housing

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
Population	994	1,414
Median age	30.3 yrs	49.3 yrs
Median household income	$49,423	$64,053
Median home value	$81,700	$101,900
Median gross rent	$1,063	$1,023
Housing units	384	662
Homeownership rate	70.2%	87.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.0%	12.7%
Unemployment rate	5.4%	31.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
Population	1,101 → 994 (-9.7%)	1,157 → 1,414 (+22.2%)
Median household income	$42,083 → $49,423 (+17.4%)	$46,188 → $64,053 (+38.7%)
Median home value	$66,300 → $81,700 (+23.2%)	$78,500 → $101,900 (+29.8%)
Median gross rent	$805 → $1,063 (+32.0%)	$1,054 → $1,023 (-2.9%)

Clendenin

Population

1,101994

Median household income

$42,083$49,423

Median home value

$66,300$81,700

Median gross rent

$805$1,063

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)

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
Under 5	18.0%	1.0%
5 to 17	16.8%	15.8%
18 to 24	13.2%	1.1%
25 to 34	10.6%	17.2%
35 to 44	6.4%	4.5%
45 to 54	7.2%	27.4%
55 to 64	14.4%	9.5%
65 to 74	10.1%	14.4%
75 and over	3.3%	9.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
White (non-Hispanic)	99.5%	92.4%
Black or African American	0.4%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.1%	0.6%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	6.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
No high school diploma	9.1%	12.7%
High school graduate	45.6%	61.8%
Some college or associate's	22.2%	12.7%
Bachelor's degree	7.7%	7.1%
Graduate or professional degree	15.3%	5.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
Drove alone	63.8%	95.7%
Carpooled	17.7%	3.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	12.3%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.3%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
1-unit, detached	93.8%	76.1%
1-unit, attached	1.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	1.6%	3.3%
5 to 19 units	2.1%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.6%	20.5%

Poverty & households

	Clendenin	Coal Fork
Poverty rate	4.4%	8.6%
Average household size	3.37	2.51
Mean commute (minutes)	27	23
Median year structure built	1949	1962