Elko is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 138 people and just one neighborhood, Elko is the 280th largest community in South Carolina.
When you are in Elko, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 60.42% of Elko’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Elko is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elko who work in office and administrative support (16.67%), management occupations (14.58%), and personal care services (2.08%).
Elko’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Elko 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. Elko has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elko than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elko may be for you.
In Elko, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.56 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Elko is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Elko, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.92% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Elko does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Elko has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.46% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Elko in 2022 was $17,873, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,492 for a family of four. However, Elko contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Elko is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elko home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elko residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Elko include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Elko is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of all American neighborhoods.
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.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.2% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 3.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Elko are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.0% 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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.3%), and 20.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Elko, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Scottish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
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 (30.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.7%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.