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New Ellenton, SC

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Overview


New Ellenton is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,286 people and just one neighborhood, New Ellenton is the 131st largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

New Ellenton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Ellenton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Ellenton who work in management occupations (13.69%), sales jobs (10.05%), and office and administrative support (9.97%).

Also of interest is that New Ellenton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of New Ellenton are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.70% of adults in New Ellenton having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Ellenton in 2022 was $30,469, 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 $121,876 for a family of four. However, New Ellenton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in New Ellenton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 New Ellenton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Ellenton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.8%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 New Ellenton, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.4%) . 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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