Is population growing or shrinking?

Refreshed annually
It shrank by 254 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Greenbrier County, WV’s 0.8% annual decrease was primarily driven by deaths outpacing births.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Greenbrier County, WV’s population shrank by 11.3%.

-254

population change (2024 to 2025)

-0.8%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Greenbrier County, WV’s population increased 10 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2009 and 2010, when Greenbrier County, WV gained 1,000 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2019 and 2020 when there were 1,700 fewer residents.

Greenbrier County, WV lost 254 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change, 2001–2025

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What contributes to population change in Greenbrier County, WV?

A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Greenbrier County, WV, with deaths exceeding births by 272.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Greenbrier County, WV’s population change from immigration was positive with about 13 more people coming from another country directly to Greenbrier County, WV than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Greenbrier County, WV’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about three more people moving from any other county in the US.

Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population decline in Greenbrier County, WV.

Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025

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