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Cowpens, SC
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Cowpens profile


Living in Cowpens



Cowpens is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,123 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cowpens is the 137th largest community in South Carolina.

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, Cowpens has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cowpens a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Cowpens does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The population of Cowpens overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Cowpens, 24.93% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cowpens in 2018 was $29,817, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,268 for a family of four. However, Cowpens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cowpens also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.62% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Cowpens is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cowpens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cowpens residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cowpens include Irish, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Cowpens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.


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