Chesterfield is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,353 people and two associated neighborhoods, Chesterfield is the 170th largest community in South Carolina.Chesterfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chesterfield is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chesterfield who work in teaching (11.45%), office and administrative support (8.40%), and sales jobs (7.63%). Also of interest is that Chesterfield has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Chesterfield 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. Chesterfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Chesterfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Chesterfield may be for you. Chesterfield is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Chesterfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.03% of adults in Chesterfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Chesterfield in 2022 was $26,187, 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 $104,748 for a family of four. However, Chesterfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chesterfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chesterfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chesterfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chesterfield include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Chesterfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
