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Neeses, SC

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Overview


Neeses is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 313 people and just one neighborhood, Neeses is the 248th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Neeses is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.21% of the Neeses workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Neeses is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Neeses who work in sales jobs (11.18%), the sciences (9.32%), and office and administrative support (6.83%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Neeses has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.70% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

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

One downside of living in Neeses is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Neeses, the average commute to work is 35.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Neeses 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 population of Neeses has a very low overall level of education: only 9.33% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Neeses in 2022 was $24,197, 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 $96,788 for a family of four. However, Neeses contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 57.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American 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 Neeses are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.1% 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, 43.5% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 14.5% 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 96.5% 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 Neeses, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (1.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (30.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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