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Huger is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 3,700 people and just one neighborhood, Huger is the 97th largest community in South Carolina.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Huger isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Huger are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Huger is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huger who work in office and administrative support (10.71%), maintenance occupations (10.24%), and sales jobs (8.75%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Huger has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Huger a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Huger, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.94 minutes every day commuting to work.
Demographics
The population of Huger overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Huger, 22.36% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Huger in 2022 was $30,931, 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 $123,724 for a family of four. However, Huger contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Huger is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Huger home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huger residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Huger include German, English, Italian, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Huger 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.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.6% 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.
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 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% 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 Huger are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.2% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.4%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Huger, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (5.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (92.9%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
