Table 2
POPULATION OF WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES
2000 CENSUS AND 1990 CENSUS
	Population			Change
	2000 Census	1990 Census		Number	Percent
Barbour	15,557	15,699		-142	-0.9
Berkeley	75,905	59,253		16,652	28.1
Boone	25,535	25,870		-335	-1.3
Braxton	14,702	12,998		1,704	13.1
Brooke	25,447	26,992		-1,545	-5.7
Cabell	96,784	96,827		-43	0.0
Calhoun	7,582	7,885		-303	-3.8
Clay	10,330	9,983		347	3.5
Doddridge	7,403	6,994		409	5.8
Fayette	47,579	47,952		-373	-0.8
Gilmer	7,160	7,669		-509	-6.6
Grant	11,299	10,428		871	8.4
Greenbrier	34,453	34,693		-240	-0.7
Hampshire	20,203	16,498		3,705	22.5
Hancock	32,667	35,233		-2,566	-7.3
Hardy	12,669	10,977		1,692	15.4
Harrison	68,652	69,371		-719	-1.0
Jackson	28,000	25,938		2,062	7.9
Jefferson	42,190	35,926		6,264	17.4
Kanawha	200,073	207,619		-7,546	-3.6
Lewis	16,919	17,223		-304	-1.8
Lincoln	22,108	21,382		726	3.4
Logan	37,710	43,032		-5,322	-12.4
McDowell	27,329	35,233		-7,904	-22.4
Marion	56,598	57,249		-651	-1.1
Marshall	35,519	37,356		-1,837	-4.9
Mason	25,957	25,178		779	3.1
Mercer	62,980	64,980		-2,000	-3.1
Mineral	27,078	26,697		381	1.4
Mingo	28,253	33,739		-5,486	-16.3
Monongalia	81,866	75,509		6,357	8.4
Monroe	14,583	12,406		2,177	17.5
Morgan	14,943	12,128		2,815	23.2
Nicholas	26,562	26,775		-213	-0.8
Ohio	47,427	50,871		-3,444	-6.8
Pendleton	8,196	8,054		142	1.8
Pleasants	7,514	7,546		-32	-0.4
Pocahontas	9,131	9,008		123	1.4
Preston	29,334	29,037		297	1.0
Putnam	51,589	42,835		8,754	20.4
Raleigh	79,220	76,819		2,401	3.1
Randolph	28,262	27,803		459	1.7
Ritchie	10,343	10,233		110	1.1
Roane	15,446	15,120		326	2.2
Summers	12,999	14,204		-1,205	-8.5
Taylor	16,089	15,144		945	6.2
Tucker	7,321	7,728		-407	-5.3
Tyler	9,592	9,796		-204	-2.1
Upshur	23,404	22,867		537	2.3
Wayne	42,903	41,636		1,267	3.0
Webster	9,719	10,729		-1,010	-9.4
Wetzel	17,693	19,258		-1,565	-8.1
Wirt	5,873	5,192		681	13.1
Wood	87,986	86,915		1,071	1.2
Wyoming	25,708	28,990		-3,282	-11.3
Source: Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, and U. S. Bureau of the Census