Cottageville is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 720 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cottageville is the 209th largest community in South Carolina.Cottageville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cottageville is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottageville who work in sales jobs (22.96%), office and administrative support (14.98%), and management occupations (8.75%). 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!) Cottageville 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. Cottageville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cottageville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cottageville may be for you. In Cottageville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.51 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. The percentage of people in Cottageville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.54% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Cottageville in 2022 was $28,737, 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 $114,948 for a family of four. However, Cottageville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cottageville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottageville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottageville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cottageville include German, European, Irish, Polish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Cottageville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
