West Virginia ranks among the most distressed states in child poverty rates and median incomes, in population loss and in working-age adults out of the labor force.

Jan. 13—Governor Jim Justice said Friday that West Virginia has reported its first population gain since 2012. Speaking during his weekly virtual administration briefing, the Republican governor ...

Justice said that West Virginia "is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years." That’s correct. Every other state gained at least 142,000 residents during that period.

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.

Census figures released Thursday show West Virginia lost a higher percentage of its residents than any other U.S. state. “Our population fell by almost 60,000 people,” said Gov. Jim Justice.

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 ...

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 ...

Between 2006 and 2016, a total of 20.8 million prescription painkillers were sent to two pharmacies in Williamson, in Mingo County, West Virginia, a town with a population of only 2,900 people.

West Virginia has seen a higher percentage of residents depart than any other state in the past decade ...

West Virginia has had the highest population exodus in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2010, West Virginia’s population was 1.85 million.

In West Virginia, nine of the 10 counties that lost the most population were in the state's coal-rich southern region. McDowell County lost 2.2 percent of its residents to fall below 20,000 in ...