North is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 676 people and two associated neighborhoods, North is the 210th largest community in South Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, North is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.82% of the North workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, North is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in North who work in management occupations (14.50%), sales jobs (6.51%), and community and social services (6.51%). 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!) North 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. North has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in North than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, North may be for you. In North, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.55 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. North is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In North, just 6.09% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in North in 2022 was $20,403, 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 $81,612 for a family of four. However, North contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. North also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.43% of its population below the federal poverty line.North is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call North home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in North include German, English, Scots-Irish, European, and Irish. The most common language spoken in North is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
