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Vance, SC

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Overview


Vance is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 124 people and just one neighborhood, Vance is the 283rd largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Vance is a blue-collar town, with 53.52% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vance is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vance who work in management occupations (14.08%), maintenance occupations (10.56%), and sales jobs (4.23%).

A relatively large number of people in Vance telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.46% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) Vance 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. Vance has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vance than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vance may be for you.

In Vance, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.04 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Vance 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 percentage of adults in Vance who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.47% of the adults in Vance have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Vance in 2022 was $22,652, 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 $90,608 for a family of four. However, Vance contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Vance home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vance residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Vance include German, Irish, French Canadian, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Vance is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Vance, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 66.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.2% 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.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.9%, which is higher than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.9%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 5.8% have African 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 Vance are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.1% of America'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, 66.2% 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 16.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 4.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Vance, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.7%). There are also a number of people of Scots-Irish ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (5.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (10.9%) . 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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