Crooked Creek vs Holden

A side-by-side comparison of Crooked Creek and Holden: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Crooked Creek has the higher population (675 vs 561 in Holden). Holden has the higher median household income ($79,960 vs $40,104 in Crooked Creek). Since 2019, Crooked Creek's population has grown faster (+83.4% vs -19.0%).

Population, income & housing

	Crooked Creek	Holden
Population	675	561
Median age	40.1 yrs	49.5 yrs
Median household income	$40,104	$79,960
Median home value	—	$93,200
Housing units	320	261
Homeownership rate	89.2%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	26.8%	21.7%
Unemployment rate	17.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Crooked Creek	Holden
Population	368 → 675 (+83.4%)	693 → 561 (-19.0%)
Median household income	$32,298 → $40,104 (+24.2%)	$54,881 → $79,960 (+45.7%)
Median home value	$88,900 → $87,900 (-1.1%)	$67,000 → $93,200 (+39.1%)

Crooked Creek

Population

368675

Median household income

$32,298$40,104

Median home value

$88,900$87,900

Holden

Population

693561

Median household income

$54,881$79,960

Median home value

$67,000$93,200

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Crooked Creek	Holden
Under 5	4.9%	0.0%
5 to 17	23.3%	13.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	2.5%
25 to 34	16.4%	3.0%
35 to 44	15.3%	17.3%
45 to 54	3.1%	34.2%
55 to 64	12.3%	26.7%
65 to 74	15.0%	0.0%
75 and over	9.8%	3.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Crooked Creek	Holden
White (non-Hispanic)	91.4%	97.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	2.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	8.6%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Crooked Creek	Holden
No high school diploma	24.3%	16.7%
High school graduate	27.8%	40.9%
Some college or associate's	21.0%	20.7%
Bachelor's degree	12.6%	21.7%
Graduate or professional degree	14.2%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Crooked Creek	Holden
Drove alone	63.0%	85.8%
Carpooled	37.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	9.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	4.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Crooked Creek	Holden
1-unit, detached	89.4%	83.9%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	10.6%	16.1%

Poverty & households

	Crooked Creek	Holden
Poverty rate	25.2%	5.7%
Average household size	2.42	2.19
Mean commute (minutes)	—	16
Median year structure built	1940	1965