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Heath Springs, SC

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Overview


Heath Springs is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 802 people and just one neighborhood, Heath Springs is the 205th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Heath Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Heath Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Heath Springs is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Heath Springs who work in food service (13.19%), healthcare suport services (12.58%), and office and administrative support (9.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Heath Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.01 minutes every day commuting to work.

Heath Springs 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.

Demographics

The citizens of Heath Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.02% of adults in Heath Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Heath Springs in 2018 was $26,281, 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 $105,124 for a family of four. However, Heath Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Heath Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Heath Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heath Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Heath Springs include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Heath Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Real Estate

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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Heath Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.9% 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 71.7% 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, 34.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Heath Springs, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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