Gaston is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,641 people and five associated neighborhoods, Gaston is the 156th largest community in South Carolina.

A relatively large number of people in Gaston telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.63% 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!) Gaston 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. Gaston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gaston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gaston may be for you.

One downside of living in Gaston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gaston, the average commute to work is 30.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Gaston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of people in Gaston with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.30% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gaston in 2022 was $29,722, 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 $118,888 for a family of four. However, Gaston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gaston is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gaston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gaston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gaston also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.53% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gaston include English, German, Irish, African, and Scots-Irish.

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