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Dalzell, SC

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Overview


Dalzell is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 3,175 people and just one neighborhood, Dalzell is the 105th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Dalzell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dalzell is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dalzell who work in community and social services (10.83%), architecture and engineering (9.58%), and healthcare (8.99%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Dalzell is worth considering.

Dalzell 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 Dalzell are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.59% of adults in Dalzell have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Dalzell in 2022 was $27,107, 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 $108,428 for a family of four. However, Dalzell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.3% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

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 Dalzell are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.1% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 13.9% 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 90.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.7%).

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 Dalzell, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (58.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (17.5%) . 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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