The table below shows the 7 races represented in Charleston, SC, as a proportion of the total. The table below shows the 7 races represented in Charleston, SC as a proportion of the total population. The racial makeup of Charleston includes 72.86% of whites, 17.36% of blacks or African-Americans, and smaller percentages for Asian, other races, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and multiracial populations. The largest racial group in Charleston is white, with a population of 110,763 inhabitants (72.86% of the total population).).
Violent incidents occurred in Charleston, on King Street, on September 6, and near Cainhoy on October 15, in association with political meetings leading up to the elections of 1876. This graph illustrates the breakdown of the shares of the main jobs held by residents of Charleston County, South Carolina. First, Hurricane Hugo made landfall in the port of Charleston in 1989 and, although the worst damage occurred in the vicinity of McClellanville, three-quarters of homes in the historic district of Charleston suffered damage of varying magnitude. However, it also increased the economic importance of enslaving people and caused increasing restrictions for black Charlestonians. The port of Charleston extends about 7 miles (11 km) southeast to the Atlantic with an average width of approximately 2 miles (3.2 km), surrounded on all sides except for its entrance. The table below shows Charleston's crime rate for six crimes, which Morgan Quito uses to calculate the ranking of the most dangerous cities in the United States compared to the national average.
The city is also home to private schools, such as Southern Charleston University and the Charleston Law School. President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden and House Speaker John Boehner attended a memorial service on the campus of the University of Charleston. This chart shows the percentage of homeowners in Charleston County, South Carolina, compared to their principal and neighboring geographies. The Charleston Coast Guard Station responds to search and rescue emergencies, carries out maritime law enforcement activities, and carries out port, river and coastal security (PWCS) missions.
This chart shows the number of workers in South Carolina in various wage groups compared to the national average. The following table shows the percentages of U.S. citizenship in Charleston County, South Carolina, compared to those of its neighboring geographies and matrices. Charleston slave traders, such as Joseph Wragg, were the first to break the monopoly of the Royal African Company and were pioneers of the 18th-century large scale slave trade; nearly half of the enslaved people imported to the United States arrived in Charleston.
The following table shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Charleston County, South Carolina, in comparison with that of neighboring geographies and matrices.
