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.
As is often the case in a small town, Calhoun Falls doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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 10.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.5% of all American 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.
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 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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.
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 (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.
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 (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.