Calhoun Falls is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,730 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. 39.34% 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, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun Falls who work in sales jobs (16.84%), teaching (9.87%), and office and administrative support (8.29%).
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, Calhoun Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Calhoun Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Calhoun Falls is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Calhoun Falls, the average commute to work is 32.21 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Calhoun Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Calhoun Falls, just 10.45% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Calhoun Falls in 2022 was $22,365, 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 $89,460 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 Irish, Italian, African, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Calhoun Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research reveals that 89.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.5% of America.
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 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 91.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 69.9% of America'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, 38.5% 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 24.3% 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 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Calhoun Falls, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (3.9%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.3%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.