ZIP 24822 vs ZIP 24857

This side-by-side compares ZIP 24822 (Clear Fork, WV) and ZIP 24857 (Lynco, WV) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 24822 has a population of 955 at 20 people per square mile, while ZIP 24857 has 984 at 46 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 24822 reports a median household income of — against $41,011 in ZIP 24857, with per-capita income of $38,126 vs $28,369. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 53.4% in 24822 and 0.0% in 24857. Poverty rate reads 30.0% vs 22.1%, and unemployment 8.9% vs 0.0% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $128,300 in 24822 versus $82,000 in 24857, with median rent of — and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 100.0% vs 89.6%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.