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Great Falls, SC
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Great Falls profile


Living in Great Falls



Great Falls is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,914 people and two associated neighborhoods, Great Falls is the 141st largest community in South Carolina.

A relatively large number of people in Great Falls telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.44% 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.

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!) Great Falls 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. Great Falls has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Great Falls than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Great Falls may be for you.

One downside of living in Great Falls is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Great Falls, the average commute to work is 30.90 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Great Falls doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

In Great Falls, just 10.83% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Great Falls in 2018 was $20,140, 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 $80,560 for a family of four. However, Great Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Great Falls also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.57% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Great Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.


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