Athens, West Virginia

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The 2000 Census showed that Athens had a population of 1,102 people^<1>. This represents 0.06% of the total population of West Virginia, making it the state's 103rd most populous community.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated.

Below is a list of similarily sized communities (while rank is based on the 2000 Census, the population shown is estimated for 2008):

Rank in 2000	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
100	Hamlin	NW	83 mi [133.6 km]	1,102	1.52% decrease
101	Clendenin	N	75 mi [120.7 km]	1,042	6.63% decrease
102	Wayne	NW	95 mi [152.9 km]	1,121	1.45% increase
-103-	Athens			1,182	7.26% increase
104	New Cumberland	N	215 mi [346 km]	990	9.92% decrease
105	Alderson	NE	29 mi [46.67 km]	1,070	1.92% decrease
106	Mason	NW	123 mi [197.9 km]	1,040	2.26% decrease

Athens had 414 Housing Units^<3> at the time of the 2000 Census.

Mercer County

The town of Athens is located in Mercer County.

The county had a population of 62,927 people at the 2000 Census. With it's population of 1,102 people, Athens contained 1.75% of the Mercer County total.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Mercer County.

Population Rings

To help identify the number of people who live in Athens and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Athens. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<4>

US Census QuickFacts

The Census Bureau has created documents containing demographic information called QuickFacts. Unfortunately, the Census Bureau has not created a QuickFact that is specific to Athens.

A Census Quickfact is available for Mercer County (QF-54055).

Below are QuickFacts for the counties that border Mercer County.

	County	Census QuickFact	Direction	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Raleigh	QF-54081	N	79,357	0.39% increase
	Summers	QF-54089	NE	13,017	9.12% decrease
	McDowell	QF-54047	W	22,707	16.29% decrease
	Wyoming	QF-54109	NW	23,534	8.01% decrease
	Giles (VA)	QF-51071	E	17,249	3.16% increase
	Bland (VA)	QF-51021	S	6,918	1.01% increase
	Tazewell (VA)	QF-51185	SW	43,787	1.44% decrease

Miscellaneous Information

The Federal government has assigned identifying codes to each community, county and state. The following FIPS codes apply to Athens:

Athens is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and in Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).

For more information about various Federal Codes, please visit our Misc. Page for Athens.

The Commemorative Quarter for West Virginia<5>

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Athens. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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