Gray Court is a town in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Gray Court had a population of 763. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
thumb|The residence of R.L. Gray, for whom the town is named, was shown on a postcard mailed in 1907.
Gray Court was incorporated as a town in 1899.
The Gray Court-Owings School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Geography
Gray Court is located between the cities of Fountain Inn and Laurens, South Carolina along highway 14 and 385. Its closest neighbor is the village of Owings, which lies about one mile to the north.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2020 census
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Gray Court town, South Carolina – Racial and ethnic composition<br><small></small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>
!Pop 2000
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|364
|328
|style='background: #ffffe6; |284
|35.65%
|41.26%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |37.22%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|551
|332
|style='background: #ffffe6; |309
|53.97%
|41.76%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |40.50%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|2
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4
|0.20%
|0.25%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.52%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|1
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.10%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.13%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other Race alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.92%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|6
|10
|style='background: #ffffe6; |30
|0.59%
|1.26%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.93%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|97
|122
|style='background: #ffffe6; |129
|9.50%
|15.35%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |16.91%
|-
|Total
|1,021
|795
|style='background: #ffffe6; |763
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 763 people, 322 households, and 185 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census
|}
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|+Mayor, run–off
!Candidate!!Votes
|-style="background:#ccffcc"
|Stellartean Jones||126
|-
|Scott Cook||85
|-
!colspan=2|Source:
|}
Education
It is in the Laurens School District 55<!--UNI 02610-->. The comprehensive high school is Laurens District 55 High School.
References
External links
- Information about Gray Court from Laurens County
- ACCESS 15 Laurens County Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channel
- The Gray Court-Owings Historical Society