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Dalzell, SC

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Overview


Dalzell is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 3,175 people and just one neighborhood, Dalzell is the 105th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Dalzell isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dalzell are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dalzell is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dalzell who work in community and social services (10.83%), architecture and engineering (9.58%), and healthcare (8.99%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Dalzell 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. Dalzell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dalzell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dalzell may be for you.

Dalzell is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Dalzell with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.59% of adults in Dalzell have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dalzell in 2022 was $27,107, 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 $108,428 for a family of four. However, Dalzell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Dalzell is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dalzell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dalzell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dalzell include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Dalzell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.3% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

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 Dalzell are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 13.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Dalzell, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (58.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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