Gaston is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,632 people and five associated neighborhoods, Gaston is the 156th largest community in South Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gaston is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.50% of the Gaston workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gaston is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gaston who work in sales jobs (10.79%), management occupations (9.23%), and maintenance occupations (8.94%). 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. As is often the case in a small town, Gaston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in Gaston is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.11% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Gaston in 2022 was $27,851, 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 $111,404 for a family of four. However, Gaston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gaston is an extremely 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 12.46% 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 Italian.
