Hampton - Brunson is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,223 people and just one neighborhood, Hampton - Brunson is the 128th largest community in South Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Hampton - Brunson isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hampton - Brunson are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hampton - Brunson is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hampton - Brunson who work in management occupations (11.48%), food service (10.86%), and office and administrative support (9.94%).
A relatively large number of people in Hampton - Brunson telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.32% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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!) Hampton - Brunson 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. Hampton - Brunson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hampton - Brunson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hampton - Brunson may be for you.
Hampton - Brunson 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Hampton - Brunson rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.05% of adults 25 and older in Hampton - Brunson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Hampton - Brunson in 2022 was $32,109, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,436 for a family of four. However, Hampton - Brunson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hampton - Brunson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hampton - Brunson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hampton - Brunson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hampton - Brunson include English, German, Irish, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Hampton - Brunson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Hampton - Brunson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 31 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Hampton - Brunson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% 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, 31.0% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.9%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Hampton - Brunson, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (14.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.