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Blenheim, SC

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Overview


Blenheim is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 111 people and just one neighborhood, Blenheim is the 287th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Blenheim is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.83% of the Blenheim workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Blenheim is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blenheim who work in management occupations (20.69%), law enforcement and fire fighting (17.24%), and office and administrative support (10.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Blenheim has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Blenheim has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blenheim than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blenheim may be for you.

One downside of living in Blenheim is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Blenheim, the average commute to work is 35.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Blenheim is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Blenheim isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Blenheim doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Blenheim is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.08% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Blenheim in 2022 was $36,517, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,068 for a family of four. However, Blenheim contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Blenheim also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.33% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Blenheim is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blenheim home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blenheim residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blenheim include African, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Blenheim is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.0% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Blenheim are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.7% 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, 47.0% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 11.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Blenheim, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (41.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.5%) 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 (5.4%) . 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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