Fountain Inn is a medium-sized city located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 13,027 people and five associated neighborhoods, Fountain Inn is the 47th largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fountain Inn is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fountain Inn is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fountain Inn who work in management occupations (10.30%), sales jobs (9.30%), and business and financial occupations (8.16%). Also of interest is that Fountain Inn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.05% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Being a small city, Fountain Inn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Fountain Inn 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: 31.37% of adults in Fountain Inn have a college degree. The per capita income in Fountain Inn in 2022 was $30,185, 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 $120,740 for a family of four. However, Fountain Inn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fountain Inn is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fountain Inn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fountain Inn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fountain Inn include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Fountain Inn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
