Mount Hope, West Virginia

Mount Hope population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Hope lost 78 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.9%. In the latest year it moved by -19.

Mount Hope covers 1.85 square miles of land, for 677 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Mount Hope is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Hope is in

All of Mount Hope's residents live in Fayette County, which had 38,600 residents in 2024. Mount Hope holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Hope

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Hope by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 25880. 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 Mount Hope is

The Census internal point of Mount Hope is at 37.896900, -81.172100. Charleston, the capital, is 38.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Hill, WV (7,732 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 133.8 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Hope

At 37.90° N, Mount Hope gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Hope

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Hill, 5.4 miles away, with 7,732 people.