Belle, West Virginia

Belle population, 2020 to 2024

Belle lost 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Belle covers 0.69 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,590 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Belle is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belle is in

All of Belle's residents live in Kanawha County, which had 173,906 residents in 2024. Belle holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 25015. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Belle is

The Census internal point of Belle is at 38.235400, -81.536700. Charleston, the capital, is 8.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chesapeake, WV (1,281 people), 0.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 143.6 miles away.

Daylight in Belle

At 38.24° N, Belle gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Chesapeake, 0.9 miles away, with 1,281 people.