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Fountain Inn, SC
Real Estate & Demographic Data





Fountain Inn profile


Living in Fountain Inn



Fountain Inn is a somewhat small city located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 11,758 people and five associated neighborhoods, Fountain Inn is the 47th largest community in South Carolina.

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.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.05% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Fountain Inn is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

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.