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Adams Run, SC

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Overview


Adams Run is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 421 people and just one neighborhood, Adams Run is the 237th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Adams Run isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Adams Run are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Adams Run is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Adams Run who work in teaching (31.25%), computer science and math (13.84%), and office and administrative support (9.82%).

Also of interest is that Adams Run has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Adams Run telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.48% 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!) Adams Run 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. Adams Run has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Adams Run than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Adams Run may be for you.

One downside of living in Adams Run, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.18 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Adams Run with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Adams Run in 2022 was $27,548, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,192 for a family of four. However, Adams Run contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Adams Run also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.77% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Adams Run is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.

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 Adams Run, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.0% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Adams Run are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.9%), and 11.0% 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 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Adams Run, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (16.1%) . 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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