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!) Harleyville 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. Harleyville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Harleyville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Harleyville may be for you.
One downside of living in Harleyville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Harleyville, the average commute to work is 32.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Harleyville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Harleyville 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. 96.92% 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, Harleyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Harleyville, just 8.49% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Harleyville in 2022 was $34,726, 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 $138,904 for a family of four. However, Harleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Harleyville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Harleyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harleyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Harleyville include Irish, German, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Harleyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
