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Newry, SC

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Overview


Newry is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 199 people and just one neighborhood, Newry is the 271st largest community in South Carolina. Newry has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Newry home prices are not only among the most expensive in South Carolina, but Newry real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Newry is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.13% of the Newry workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Newry is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newry who work in maintenance occupations (31.25%), office and administrative support (15.63%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Newry’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Newry has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newry a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Newry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Newry citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.22% of adults 25 and older in Newry have a college degree.

The per capita income in Newry in 2018 was $14,945, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,780 for a family of four.

Newry is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Newry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newry residents report their race to be White. Newry also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.22% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Newry include German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Newry's cultural character, accounting for 25.22% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Newry 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.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.6% of the neighborhoods in SC. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Newry are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% 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, 40.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.2%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).

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 Newry, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (14.7%) . 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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