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.
Cowpens is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Cowpens are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.07% of adults in Cowpens have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Cowpens in 2022 was $32,703, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,812 for a family of four. However, Cowpens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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 12.77% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cowpens include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Cowpens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
