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!) Pageland 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. Pageland has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pageland than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pageland may be for you.
Being a small town, Pageland does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Pageland with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.77% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pageland in 2022 was $21,861, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,444 for a family of four. However, Pageland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pageland is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pageland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pageland residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Pageland also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.04% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pageland include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pageland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
