# Cities in West Virginia by population, 2025

All 13 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `population`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Resident population. Spain and the EU: 1 January, with Spanish figures from the official municipal register (Padrón). Norway: Statistics Norway, 1 January. Iceland and its municipalities: Statistics Iceland, 1 January. United States: Census Bureau population estimates for 1 July. United Kingdom regions and local authorities: Office for National Statistics estimates for 30 June. Other countries and the World: World Bank mid-year estimates, which count all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. UN World Population Prospects estimates for 1 July cover the years before 1960 and the areas the World Bank does not publish, such as Taiwan.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 1 July (Population Estimates Program, subcounty totals) (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 1 July (Population Estimates Program, subcounty totals). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/population/west-virginia-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Charleston, WV | 46,117 |
| 2 | Huntington, WV | 44,815 |
| 3 | Morgantown, WV | 30,293 |
| 4 | Parkersburg, WV | 28,593 |
| 5 | Wheeling, WV | 25,680 |
| 6 | Martinsburg, WV | 19,211 |
| 7 | Weirton, WV | 18,133 |
| 8 | Fairmont, WV | 18,035 |
| 9 | Beckley, WV | 16,373 |
| 10 | Clarksburg, WV | 15,562 |
| 11 | South Charleston, WV | 13,072 |
| 12 | Vienna, WV | 10,321 |
| 13 | St. Albans, WV | 10,210 |