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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd median real estate price is $255,599, which is more expensive than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in South Carolina and 31.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd is currently $1,802, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 42.7% of South Carolina neighborhoods.

Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Gaffney, South Carolina.

Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Real estate vacancies in Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd are 4.3%, which is lower than one will find in 71.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

With 3.4% of employed workers living in the Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.0% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.6% 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.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood. More residents of the Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

The Neighbors

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 Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood in Gaffney are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.7% 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 Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood, 39.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.0%), and 10.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.1%).

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 Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood in Gaffney, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Pleasant School Rd / Ellis Ferry Rd neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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