About one in nine working residents works right in Rainelle
Most working residents leave Rainelle for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Lewisburg (8%), Charleston (7%) and Beckley (4%). Half commute less than 25 miles.
Rainelle has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 79°, a January night drops to 21°, and about 68 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Rainelle’s public schools outperform 54% of West Virginia districts
The public schools Rainelle’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 54% of West Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
Rainelle is a town on the western edge of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. It sits at the base of Sewell Mountain and Sims Mountain, and is bisected by the Meadow River. The only means of transportation to and from Rainelle are roads; primarily US 60 and WV 20, which merge on the western end of the town, and the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, which enters from the south. The population was 1,190 at the 2020 census.
