Waterloo is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 154 people and two associated neighborhoods, Waterloo is the 278th largest community in South Carolina.Waterloo is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Waterloo is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Waterloo who work in office and administrative support (35.29%), sales jobs (7.84%), and art, media, and design (7.84%). Of important note, Waterloo is also a town of artists. Waterloo has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Waterloo’s character. 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, Waterloo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Waterloo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Waterloo is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Waterloo, the average commute to work is 40.74 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Waterloo is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Waterloo isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. Being a small town, Waterloo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Waterloo citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.41% of adults in Waterloo have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Waterloo in 2022 was $16,085, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,340 for a family of four. Waterloo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.98% of its population below the federal poverty line.Waterloo is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Waterloo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waterloo residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Waterloo include English, German, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in Waterloo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).
