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Sharon, SC

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Overview


Sharon is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 468 people and just one neighborhood, Sharon is the 232nd largest community in South Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Sharon was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Sharon economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Sharon, where the median household income is $41,250.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sharon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.19% of the Sharon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sharon is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharon who work in office and administrative support (9.38%), healthcare (7.81%), and management occupations (6.25%).

Of important note, Sharon is also a town of artists. Sharon has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sharon’s character.

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

One downside of living in Sharon is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sharon, the average commute to work is 37.95 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Sharon 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

In Sharon, just 7.67% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Sharon in 2022 was $27,374, 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 $109,496 for a family of four. However, Sharon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sharon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Sharon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

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, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Sharon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.1% 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, 35.6% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Sharon, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.3%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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