It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cowpens has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cowpens has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cowpens than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cowpens may be for you.
Being a small town, Cowpens does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Cowpens citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.93% of adults in Cowpens have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cowpens in 2022 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.
