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Cassatt, SC

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Overview


Cassatt is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,829 people and just one neighborhood, Cassatt is the 115th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cassatt is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cassatt is a town of service providers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassatt who work in food service (16.70%), management occupations (16.18%), and maintenance occupations (8.88%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cassatt has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cassatt a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Cassatt is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cassatt, the average commute to work is 32.67 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Cassatt 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 Cassatt who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.49% of the adults in Cassatt have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cassatt in 2018 was $21,828, 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 $87,312 for a family of four. However, Cassatt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.9% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 39 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 4.8% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Cassatt are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% 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, 34.3% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

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 Cassatt, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Haitian roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (17.2%) . 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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