South Caroolina State Water Assessment, 2Nd Ed., Chapter 7
WATERSHED CONDITIONS: ACE BASIN Broad Upper Savannah Lynches SANTEE Pee Dee Catawba- Saluda Wateree Little SA Pee Dee V ANN Congaree PEE DEE Waccamaw Black AH Santee Lower Edisto Savannah ACE Ashley- VIRGINI A Cooper Combahee- Coosawhatchie NO RT H C A R OLI NA Pee Dee Santee basin basin SOUTH Savannah CA RO LI NA basin ACE GEORGIA basin South Carolina Water Assessment 7-1 ASHLEY-COOPER RIVER SUBBASIN The major population centers in 2000 were Charleston (96,650), North Charleston, including Charleston Heights (79,641), Mount Pleasant (47,609), Summerville (27,752), St. Andrews (21,814), and Hanahan (12,937). The year 2005 per capita income in the subbasin ranged from $26,207 in Dorchester County, which ranked 17th in the State, to $34,158 in Charleston County, which ranked second. In 1999, median household income in the subbasin ranged from $37,810 in Charleston County to $43,316 in Dorchester County. Median household income in the three counties ranked between tenth and fourth in the State, well above the South Carolina average of $37,082 (South Carolina Budget and Control Board, 2005). During 2000, the counties of the subbasin had combined annual average employment of nonagricultural wage and salary workers of about 248,000. Labor distribution in the subbasin counties included management, professional, and technical services, 33 percent; sales and office, 26 percent; service, 16 percent; production, transportation, and materials moving, 13 percent; construction, extraction, and maintenance, 11 percent; and farming, fishing, and forestry, 1 percent. Management, professional, and technical employment was about 10 percent above the State average, and production, transportation, and ASHLEY-COOPER RIVER SUBBASIN materials moving employment was about 30 percent The Ashley-Cooper River subbasin is in the central below the State average.
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