Richwood, West Virginia

Richwood population, 2020 to 2024

Richwood lost 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.3%. In the latest year it moved by -12.

Richwood covers 1.61 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 998 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Richwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Richwood is in

All of Richwood's residents live in Nicholas County, which had 24,017 residents in 2024. Richwood holds 6.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Richwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 26261. 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 Richwood is

The Census internal point of Richwood is at 38.222400, -80.538000. Charleston, the capital, is 58.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Summersville, WV (3,326 people), 17.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 147.3 miles away.

Daylight in Richwood

At 38.22° N, Richwood 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 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Richwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Summersville, 17.1 miles away, with 3,326 people.