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Gaston, SC
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Gaston profile


Living in Gaston



Gaston is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,632 people and five associated neighborhoods, Gaston is the 156th largest community in South Carolina.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.19% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

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

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

The population of Gaston has a very low overall level of education: only 9.21% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Gaston in 2022 was $26,712, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,848 for a family of four. However, Gaston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gaston is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gaston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gaston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gaston also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.77% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gaston include English, German, Irish, African, and Scots-Irish.

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