Calhoun Falls is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,726 people and just one neighborhood, Calhoun Falls is the 149th largest community in South Carolina.
When you are in Calhoun Falls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.13% of Calhoun Falls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Calhoun Falls is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun Falls who work in sales jobs (15.87%), teaching (11.23%), and maintenance occupations (8.39%).
Also of interest is that Calhoun Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Calhoun Falls is worth considering.
In Calhoun Falls, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Calhoun Falls 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.
The percentage of people in Calhoun Falls with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Calhoun Falls in 2022 was $20,539, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,156 for a family of four. However, Calhoun Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Calhoun Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Calhoun Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calhoun Falls residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Calhoun Falls include African, Irish, German, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in Calhoun Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Calhoun Falls, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
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 Calhoun Falls are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% 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, 39.1% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.6%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Calhoun Falls, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (7.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (43.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.4%) 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.