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!) Prosperity 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. Prosperity has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Prosperity than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Prosperity may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Prosperity doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Prosperity citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.53% of adults 25 and older in Prosperity have a college degree.
The per capita income in Prosperity in 2022 was $31,151, 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 $124,604 for a family of four. However, Prosperity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Prosperity is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Prosperity home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prosperity residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Prosperity include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Prosperity is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
