How Ware Shoals is run
Ware Shoals spent $2.5 million in the year to June 30, 2022, about $1,144 per resident.
What stands out about how Ware Shoals is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $1,144 per resident a year, or $3.13 a day
The biggest line: sewer & trash, at 49% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
The typical homeowner pays $560 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 0.68% of the home’s value, vs 0.48% across South Carolina.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Ware Shoals’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Who’s in charge in Ware Shoals
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Ware Shoals yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 196 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
Greenwood School District 51
Ware Shoals’s K–12 school district. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $15,507 per pupil, $8,222 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
South Carolina districts overall: 45% local, 43% state, 13% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Ware Shoals.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2South Carolina HouseWare Shoals is split between 2 districts
- 3South Carolina SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of South Carolina
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Ware Shoals’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Ware Shoals is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.