Hemingway is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 466 people and three associated neighborhoods, Hemingway is the 229th largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hemingway is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hemingway is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hemingway who work in maintenance occupations (15.85%), teaching (15.85%), and office and administrative support (12.80%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hemingway has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hemingway a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Hemingway is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hemingway, the average commute to work is 38.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Hemingway does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Hemingway who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.44% of adults in Hemingway have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Hemingway in 2022 was $32,175, 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 $128,700 for a family of four. However, Hemingway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hemingway is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hemingway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hemingway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hemingway include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Hemingway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
