The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gaston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gaston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Gaston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
