Piedmont is a somewhat small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 5,571 people and six associated neighborhoods, Piedmont is the 73rd largest community in South Carolina.Piedmont is a blue-collar town, with 41.10% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Piedmont is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Piedmont who work in sales jobs (10.03%), food service (8.51%), and management occupations (8.21%). Also of interest is that Piedmont has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Piedmont telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.99% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) Piedmont 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. Piedmont has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Piedmont than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Piedmont may be for you. Piedmont 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 Piedmont are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.18% of adults in Piedmont have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Piedmont in 2022 was $31,700, 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 $126,800 for a family of four. However, Piedmont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Piedmont is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Piedmont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Piedmont residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Piedmont also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.71% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Piedmont include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Greek. The most common language spoken in Piedmont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
