For businesses in Charleston, SC, AnSer offers live answering and message taking through its nationwide service, including after-hours and overflow call handling. Use the local context below when discussing your hours, call instructions and language requirements with our team.
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Charleston city is a Census place in SC. Its published county relationships are Berkeley County, South Carolina; Charleston County, South Carolina. Because it spans multiple counties, county-based routing needs the service address, not just the city name.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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Charleston city has an estimated 146,875 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in Charleston: Spanish: 6,038 ±1,233; Other Indo-European languages: 1,298 ±355; French, Haitian, or Cajun: 911 ±303. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 146,875 | 852 |
| Speak only English | 135,443 | 1,689 |
| Spanish | 6,038 | 1,233 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 911 | 303 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 473 | 168 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 664 | 586 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 1,298 | 355 |
| Korean | 29 | 48 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 704 | 299 |
| Vietnamese | 188 | 123 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 250 | 212 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 358 | 180 |
| Arabic | 302 | 291 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 217 | 121 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for Charleston.
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