Cheraw is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 4,946 people and five associated neighborhoods, Cheraw is the 78th largest community in South Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cheraw is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.71% of the Cheraw workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cheraw is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cheraw who work in management occupations (9.54%), sales jobs (7.03%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.72%). One of the benefits of Cheraw is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.04 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small town, Cheraw does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Cheraw is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.26% of adults 25 and older in Cheraw have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Cheraw in 2022 was $27,463, 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 $109,852 for a family of four. However, Cheraw contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cheraw also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.04% of its population below the federal poverty line.Cheraw is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cheraw home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cheraw residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cheraw include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Cheraw is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
