About New Ellenton

New Ellenton is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,208 people and just one neighborhood, New Ellenton is the 169th largest community in South Carolina.

When you are in New Ellenton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.0% of New Ellenton's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, New Ellenton is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Ellenton who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.26%), sales jobs (11.84%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (6.44%).

New Ellenton is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of New Ellenton isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.42% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, New Ellenton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

New Ellenton Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, New Ellenton ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 7.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Ellenton in 2000 was $17,915, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $71,660 for a family of four.

New Ellenton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Ellenton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New Ellenton is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Ellenton include Irish, English, German, French, and African.

The most common language spoken in New Ellenton is English.