Found within zip codes: 29607
Popular real estate near Greenville, SC (Nicholtown)
Nicholtown median real estate prices are $71,420, which is less expensive than 80.0% of South Carolina neighborhoods and 89.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Average rental prices in Nicholtown are currently $400, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price then 75.0% of South Carolina neighborhoods.
Nicholtown is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Greenville, South Carolina.
Nicholtown real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Nicholtown neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Nicholtown. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 16.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 85.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by seasonal homes (such as vacation areas), and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood CharacteristicsThe 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.
Notable & Unique: PeopleOne of the unique characteristics of the Nicholtown neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors The Neighbors: IncomeThere are two complimentary 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 Nicholtown neighborhood in Greenville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: OccupationsWhat 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 Nicholtown neighborhood, 38.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.3%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / AncestryCulture 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 Nicholtown neighborhood in Greenville, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (2.3%). There are also a number of people of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.7%) , and residents who report Irish roots (1.3%) , and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.2%) , along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
The Neighbors: LanguagesThe most common language spoken in the Nicholtown neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.6%).
Getting to WorkHow 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 Nicholtown neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (5.3%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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| RENTAL PRICE | Low cost relative to SC, very low cost relative to the nation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER | DETAILS |
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| THE SETTING | Urban (based on population density) |
| TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Single-family homes, some Small apartment buildings, some Complexes/high rise apartments and a few Rowhouses & attached homes |
| SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Small dwellings (1, 2, or no bedrooms), some Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms) |
| AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Well established older homes (Built 1940 - 1969), some Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1999), some Historic homes (Built 1939 or earlier) and some Newer Homes (Built 2000 or later) |
| HOMEOWNERSHIP | Mixed owners & renters |
| SPECIAL CHARACTER | Mostly Hip & Trendy and Walkable |
| THE NEIGHBORS | DETAILS |
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| AGE & LIFESTYLE | Mostly Mixed ages, some Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single), some Seniors (people 65 and over) and some Families with children (family households with school-aged children) |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | Rating: 4 (5 is average for the U.S., 10 is most educated) |
| INCOME | Low income (among the 15% lowest income communities in America) |
| OCCUPATIONS | Mostly Sales & Service workers, some Manufacturing & Laborers, some Executive, managerial & professional, some Clerical, assistants & technical support and some Government employees |
| ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY | Mostly Black, some White (non-Hispanic), some Hispanic and some Irish ancestry |
| LANGUAGES | Mostly English speaking and some Spanish speaking |
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| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 59.3 | 53.4 |
| BLACK (%) | 23.6 | 36.2 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 11.5 | 6.4 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 46.2 | 54.4 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $4,540 | $322,228,000 | 47.2 |
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| STUDENT | $489 | $34,707,000 | 5.1 |
| STAFF | $514 | $36,506,000 | 5.4 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $32 | $2,271,000 | 0.3 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $461 | $32,683,000 | 4.8 |
| OPERATION | $766 | $54,341,000 | 8.0 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $243 | $17,279,000 | 2.5 |
| OTHER | $216 | $15,307,000 | 2.2 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $2,721 | $193,094,000 | 28.3 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $2,349 | $166,706,000 | 24.4 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $9,610 | $682,028,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 16.4 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 46.4 |
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| SINCE 1990 | 66.04% | 2.23% | 4 | 2 |
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Nicholtown neighborhood appreciation rates are for subscribers only. Greenville, SC appreciation rates (city-wide averages) are open to all visitors.
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