Welch, West Virginia

Welch population, 2020 to 2024

Welch lost 196 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.4%. In the latest year it moved by -35.

Welch covers 7.63 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 447 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Welch is less dense than the typical town.

What county Welch is in

All of Welch's residents live in McDowell County, which had 17,147 residents in 2024. Welch holds 19.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Welch

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Welch by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 24801. 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 Welch is

The Census internal point of Welch is at 37.428000, -81.591400. Charleston, the capital, is 62.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tazewell, VA (4,302 people), 21.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 117.5 miles away.

Daylight in Welch

At 37.43° N, Welch gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Welch

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Mullens, 15.5 miles away, with 1,357 people.