West Virginia was expected to lose a House seat because of the state’s population decline; West Virginia had six House districts until the 1960 census when it lost one seat. It later lost seats ...

West Virginia, Oregon, and Pennsylvania are among the states that had natural decrease last year, or more deaths than births. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

• According to official Census data, West Virginia is the only state to see its population decline between 1950 and 2019. • The state had a small spurts of population growth in the 1970s and ...

In 2010, the population of the Mountain State stood at 1.85 million, but by 2020, that number had declined to 1.79 million people, per the US Census.

According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, West Virginia lost a higher percentage of its residents than any other state in the nation. From 2010 to 2020, the population dropped ...