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.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cottageville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cottageville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottageville who work in office and administrative support (19.81%), sales jobs (18.10%), and food service (8.38%). Also of interest is that Cottageville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.95% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) 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. One downside of living in Cottageville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cottageville, the average commute to work is 41.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The citizens of Cottageville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.90% of adults in Cottageville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Cottageville in 2022 was $31,089, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,356 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, Polish, Irish, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Cottageville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
