Converse is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 534 people and just one neighborhood, Converse is the 228th largest community in South Carolina.
Converse is a blue-collar town, with 39.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Converse is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Converse who work in maintenance occupations (23.61%), sales jobs (13.19%), and management occupations (6.94%).
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!) Converse 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. Converse has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Converse than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Converse may be for you.
One of the benefits of Converse is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.29 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Converse doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Converse has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Converse in 2022 was $30,303, 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 $121,212 for a family of four. However, Converse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Converse is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Converse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Converse residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Converse include Irish, Polish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Converse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Slavic languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 0.7% have Brazilian ancestry.
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 Converse are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.1% of U.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, 32.3% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.7%).
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 Converse, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (4.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.