Catawba is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,301 people and just one neighborhood, Catawba is the 173rd largest community in South Carolina.
When you are in Catawba, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.77% of Catawba’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Catawba is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catawba who work in office and administrative support (19.30%), healthcare suport services (11.61%), and management occupations (11.47%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Catawba has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Catawba has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Catawba than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Catawba may be for you.
One downside of living in Catawba is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Catawba, the average commute to work is 39.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Catawba does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Catawba is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.56% of adults in Catawba have a college degree.
The per capita income in Catawba in 2022 was $28,074, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,296 for a family of four. However, Catawba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Catawba is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Catawba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Catawba residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Catawba include Scots-Irish, Italian, English, Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Catawba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Catawba are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.3% of America'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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.8%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Catawba, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.