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Calhoun Falls is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,726 people and just one neighborhood, Calhoun Falls is the 149th largest community in South Carolina.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Calhoun Falls is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.13% of the Calhoun Falls workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Calhoun Falls is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun Falls who work in sales jobs (15.87%), teaching (11.23%), and maintenance occupations (8.39%).
Also of interest is that Calhoun Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Calhoun Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Calhoun Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Calhoun Falls, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Calhoun Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In Calhoun Falls, just 12.86% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Calhoun Falls in 2022 was $20,539, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,156 for a family of four. However, Calhoun Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Calhoun Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Calhoun Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calhoun Falls residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Calhoun Falls include African, Irish, German, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in Calhoun Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 93.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
People
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Calhoun Falls are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.6%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Calhoun Falls, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (7.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
