In terms of college education, South Charleston is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.57% of adults in South Charleston have a college degree.
The per capita income in South Charleston in 2018 was $33,473, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,892 for a family of four. However, South Charleston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
South Charleston is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call South Charleston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Charleston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Charleston include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Celtic.
The most common language spoken in South Charleston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
