South Charleston
Across the Kanawha and technically its own city, South Charleston wears the industrial inheritance plainly: the chemical corridor shaped the tax base, the school district, and the silhouette. The Adena mound on D Street predates all of it by a couple millennia, which the locals will mention if you ask and sometimes if you don't. Park Place and the older streets off MacCorkle hold the kind of brick storefronts that survive by not pretending to be anything else. The tradeoff is candid: you get proximity to downtown Charleston without paying Charleston rents, and you accept the view across the river is the view.
South Charleston by the numbers
South Charleston runs male-heavy, about 67% men to 33% women.
Median individual income in South Charleston is about $36,800.
West Virginia registers voters by party, and Kanawha County is about 37% Republican to 34% Democratic (a legacy bloc that votes Republican), with 26% Unaffiliated.
The median renter in South Charleston pays about $770 a month.
About 2,200 South Charleston residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Los Agaves
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Olive Tree Cafe and Catering
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Main Tin Restaurant | Chinese • Buffet
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Elephant Thai Restaurant
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Huskey's Dairy Bar
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Mea Cuppa Coffee Lounge
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Cafe Appalachia
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Fife Street Brewing
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Daily Dose Cafe
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Bodaddy's
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Lee Street Lounge
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Shawarma Zone WV
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Shoney's Big Boy Museum
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Captain Holstein’s FEC
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Charleston Light Opera Guild
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Echo-Lit
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