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Chesapeake town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Chesapeake town is a Census town of 1,702 people across 0.48 square miles of land, in Kanawha County. Median household income is $60,927, 77.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Chesapeake
What Chesapeake is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.48 sq mi
- Water area0.16 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,536
- 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.
Chesapeake
How many people live in Chesapeake
- Population1,702
- Median age37.7 plus or minus 8.5
- Population under 18391 plus or minus 125
- Share under 1823.0 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Population 65 and over279 plus or minus 68
- Share 65 and over16.4 percent
- Households745
- Family households414 plus or minus 95
- Share of households that are families55.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chesapeake
Income and work in Chesapeake
- Median household income$60,927 plus or minus $17,017
- Per capita income$26,743
- Civilian labor force706
- Employed690 plus or minus 139
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over1,217
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.4 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.2 percent plus or minus 1.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chesapeake
Housing in Chesapeake
- Housing units870
- Occupied units745
- Vacant units125 plus or minus 54
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Owner occupied578
- Renter occupied167 plus or minus 49
- Ownership rate77.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$84,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$967
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.0 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units612
- Share single family70.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more52 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more6.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Mobile homes206 plus or minus 100
- Median year structure built1960
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chesapeake
How Chesapeake gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute649 plus or minus 143
- Commuting under 15 minutes207 plus or minus 96
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.9 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more132 plus or minus 62
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.3 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Drove alone75.1 percent plus or minus 21.5
- Carpooled17.5 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Public transport0.7 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Worked from home3.9 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha County, not Chesapeake
Kanawha County context, not Chesapeake 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 Chesapeake 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 Chesapeake. 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.
- 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
Chesapeake questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chesapeake, West Virginia?
1,702, in 745 households. Chesapeake town covers 0.48 square miles of land, which is 3,536 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chesapeake 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 Chesapeake?
$60,927. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $84,500. Median gross rent is $967 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Chesapeake 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 Chesapeake.
Is zoning published for Chesapeake?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.