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Big Chimney CDP, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Big Chimney CDP is a Census CDP of 610 people across 2.00 square miles of land, in Kanawha County. Median household income is $43,403, 90.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Big Chimney through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 610 with a margin of error of plus or minus 337, which is 55.2 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Big Chimney
What Big Chimney is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2 sq mi
- Water area0.06 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land304 plus or minus 168
- County holding the largest share of its areaKanawha County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Chimney
How many people live in Big Chimney
- Population610 plus or minus 337
- Median age59.3
- Population under 1826 plus or minus 43
- Share under 184.3 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Population 65 and over228 plus or minus 155
- Share 65 and over37.4 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Households309 plus or minus 136
- Family households137 plus or minus 102
- Share of households that are families44.3 percent plus or minus 26.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Chimney
Income and work in Big Chimney
- Median household income$43,403 plus or minus $31,533
- Per capita income$29,133 plus or minus $10,054
- Civilian labor force195 plus or minus 186
- Employed169 plus or minus 171
- Unemployed26 plus or minus 41
- Unemployment rate13.3 percent plus or minus 16.7
- Adults 25 and over540 plus or minus 282
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.2 percent plus or minus 55.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.8 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.8 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Chimney
Housing in Big Chimney
- Housing units371 plus or minus 129
- Occupied units309 plus or minus 136
- Vacant units62 plus or minus 98
- Vacancy rate16.7 percent plus or minus 25.8
- Owner occupied281 plus or minus 144
- Renter occupied28 plus or minus 31
- Ownership rate90.9 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Single family units343 plus or minus 137
- Share single family92.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more17 plus or minus 28
- Share in buildings of two or more4.6 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1959
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Big Chimney
How Big Chimney gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute125 plus or minus 118
- Commuting under 15 minutes82 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes65.6 percent plus or minus 30.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more21 plus or minus 35
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.8 percent plus or minus 23.5
- Drove alone74.0 percent plus or minus 102.4
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home26.0 percent plus or minus 33.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha County, not Big Chimney
Kanawha County context, not Big Chimney figures
These are Kanawha County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Big Chimney measurements.
- Establishments in Kanawha County4,396
- Employment at those establishments, Kanawha County74,799
- Covered employment, Kanawha County97,845
- Average annual pay, Kanawha County$61,997
- Average weekly wage, Kanawha County$1,192
- Housing units permitted, Kanawha County98
- Of those, single family, Kanawha County98
- County product, 2024, Kanawha County$14,447,639,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kanawha County5.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kanawha County$48,097
Every figure in this section is published for Kanawha County as a whole and is not a measurement of Big Chimney. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Big Chimney questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Big Chimney, West Virginia?
610, in 309 households. Big Chimney CDP covers 2.00 square miles of land, which is 304 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Big Chimney in?
Kanawha County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Big Chimney?
$43,403. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Big Chimney figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kanawha County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Big Chimney.
Is zoning published for Big Chimney?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.