About Lake Wylie

Lake Wylie is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 3,148 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Wylie is the 138th largest community in South Carolina.

Lake Wylie is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.34% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Wylie is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Wylie who work in sales jobs (27.75%), management occupations (22.25%), and office and administrative support jobs (14.63%).

In addition, Lake Wylie is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Lake Wylie is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Lake Wylie, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.68% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Lake Wylie is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Lake Wylie Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Lake Wylie. 49.98% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Lake Wylie in 2000 was $43,567, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $174,268 for a family of four. However, Lake Wylie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lake Wylie home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lake Wylie is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Wylie include English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Lake Wylie is English.