Bethune is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 331 people and just one neighborhood, Bethune is the 250th largest community in South Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Bethune isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bethune are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bethune is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bethune who work in sales jobs (16.89%), teaching (13.51%), and management occupations (11.49%).
One downside of living in Bethune, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.81 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Bethune does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Bethune citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.21% of adults 25 and older in Bethune have a college degree.
The per capita income in Bethune in 2022 was $24,655, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,620 for a family of four. However, Bethune contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bethune also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.70% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bethune is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bethune home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bethune residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bethune include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bethune is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bethune, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.3% 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.
In addition, 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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of American neighborhoods.
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 Bethune are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 43.5% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
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 Bethune, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.2%), along with some African ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (15.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.