The city 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, Chesnee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chesnee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Chesnee is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Chesnee, just 9.03% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Chesnee in 2022 was $23,275, 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 $93,100 for a family of four. However, Chesnee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chesnee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.84% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Chesnee is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Chesnee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chesnee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chesnee include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Slavic.
The most common language spoken in Chesnee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
