The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ware Shoals has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ware Shoals a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Ware Shoals is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ware Shoals, the average commute to work is 31.78 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Ware Shoals does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Ware Shoals have a very low rate of college education: just 9.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Ware Shoals in 2022 was $20,518, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,072 for a family of four. However, Ware Shoals contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ware Shoals also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 51.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Ware Shoals is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ware Shoals home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ware Shoals residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ware Shoals also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.50% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ware Shoals include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and African.
The most common language spoken in Ware Shoals is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
