Follansbee, West Virginia

Follansbee population, 2020 to 2024

Follansbee lost 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.4%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Follansbee covers 1.84 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 1,460 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Follansbee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Follansbee is in

All of Follansbee's residents live in Brooke County, which had 21,285 residents in 2024. Follansbee holds 12.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Follansbee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Follansbee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 26037. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Follansbee is

The Census internal point of Follansbee is at 40.337000, -80.597200. Charleston, the capital, is 148.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mingo Junction, OH (3,250 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 33.5 miles away.

Daylight in Follansbee

At 40.34° N, Follansbee gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Follansbee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Wellsburg, 3.9 miles away, with 2,280 people.