Ware Shoals is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,703 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ware Shoals is the 150th largest community in South Carolina. Ware Shoals has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ware Shoals is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.31% of the Ware Shoals workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ware Shoals is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ware Shoals who work in office and administrative support (10.46%), sales jobs (5.38%), and food service (5.08%). 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. In Ware Shoals, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.78 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Ware Shoals doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Ware Shoals, just 9.05% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. 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.
