Cowpens is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,190 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cowpens is the 137th largest community in South Carolina.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.47% 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.

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 percentage of adults in Cowpens who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.86% of the adults in Cowpens have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cowpens in 2022 was $29,632, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,528 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 31.00% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Cowpens is a very 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. Cowpens also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.62% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cowpens include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Egyptian.

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