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Springdale, SC

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Overview


Springdale is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,719 people and just one neighborhood, Springdale is the 114th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Springdale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Springdale is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Springdale who work in management occupations (19.05%), office and administrative support (10.80%), and teaching (9.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Springdale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Springdale is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.86% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Springdale in 2022 was $40,463, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,852 for a family of four. However, Springdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Springdale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.9% 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, 41.8% 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Springdale, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 10.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.8%) 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.


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