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Jonesville, SC

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Overview


Jonesville is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 830 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesville is the 191st largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Jonesville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 57.04% of Jonesville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jonesville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesville who work in office and administrative support (8.22%), food service (7.51%), and healthcare suport services (6.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Jonesville 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. Jonesville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jonesville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jonesville may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Jonesville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Jonesville, just 7.15% 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 Jonesville in 2018 was $22,786, 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 $91,144 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Jonesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Jonesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.7% 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, 43.2% 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 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).

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 neighborhood in Jonesville, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Scottish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.2%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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