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Johnston, SC

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Overview


Johnston is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,078 people and just one neighborhood, Johnston is the 139th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Johnston, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.41% of Johnston’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Johnston is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Johnston who work in healthcare suport services (10.59%), office and administrative support (9.22%), and food service (5.97%).

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, Johnston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Johnston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Johnston with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.20% of adults in Johnston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Johnston in 2018 was $21,618, 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 $86,472 for a family of four. Johnston also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.38% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The 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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 8.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary 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 neighborhood in Johnston are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.7%).

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 Johnston, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.2%) and 5.6% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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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