Swansea is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 760 people and four associated neighborhoods, Swansea is the 207th largest community in South Carolina.Swansea is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Swansea is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Swansea who work in sales jobs (12.50%), maintenance occupations (12.50%), and office and administrative support (10.20%). Also of interest is that Swansea has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Swansea telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.93% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. 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!) Swansea 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. Swansea has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Swansea than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Swansea may be for you. Being a small town, Swansea does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Swansea, just 12.66% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Swansea in 2022 was $25,292, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,168 for a family of four. However, Swansea contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Swansea is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Swansea home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Swansea residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Swansea include African, German, English, Irish, and Eastern European. The most common language spoken in Swansea is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
