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Smoaks, SC

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Overview


Smoaks is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 98 people and just one neighborhood, Smoaks is the 290th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Smoaks is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Smoaks is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smoaks who work in teaching (24.07%), community and social services (12.96%), and office and administrative support (7.41%).

Smoaks is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Smoaks, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

Also of interest is that Smoaks has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Smoaks’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

One downside of living in Smoaks is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Smoaks, the average commute to work is 33.21 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Smoaks is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.00% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Smoaks in 2022 was $41,548, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,192 for a family of four. However, Smoaks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Smoaks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smoaks residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Smoaks include English, Irish, European, German, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Smoaks is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.5% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Smoaks are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.5%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Smoaks, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (30.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (13.2%) . 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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