West Virginia · Census place 5443492

Keyser, West Virginia

Keyser is a city in Mineral County, West Virginia with an estimated 4,802 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 27th largest of 100 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,802
#27 of 100 in West Virginia
Change since 2020
-1.2%
-58 people
Land area
2.0 sq mi
Density
2,438 / sq mi
State median 1,823
Orange pin: Keyser. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Charleston.

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Keyser population, 2020 to 2024

Keyser lost 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -31.

4,86020204,88520214,86320224,83320234,8022024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,872. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Keyser covers 1.97 square miles of land, for 2,438 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Keyser is denser than the typical town.

What county Keyser is in

All of Keyser's residents live in Mineral County, which had 26,778 residents in 2024. Keyser holds 17.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Keyser

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Keyser by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 26726. 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 Keyser is

The Census internal point of Keyser is at 39.439400, -78.982100. Charleston, the capital, is 160.7 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Frostburg, MD (6,972 people), 14.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 86.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
39.439400, -78.982100
DMS
39°26'21.84"N 78°58'55.56"W
UTM
17N 673654.6E 4367482.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
87F3C2Q9+Q5

Daylight in Keyser

At 39.44° N, Keyser gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Keyser

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Romney, 13.7 miles away, with 1,755 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Keyser, WV?

4,802 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 58 (1.2%) from 4,860 in July 2020.

What county is Keyser in?

Mineral County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Keyser?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 26726.

How far is Keyser from Charleston?

160.7 miles (258.6 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Keyser.

What is the nearest larger city to Keyser?

Frostburg, MD, with 6,972 residents, 14.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.