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McConnells, SC

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Overview


McConnells is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 286 people and just one neighborhood, McConnells is the 254th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, McConnells is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McConnells is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McConnells who work in sales jobs (17.69%), office and administrative support (14.62%), and management occupations (11.54%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.53% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Overall, McConnells’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

One downside of living in McConnells, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.40 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, McConnells is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.76% of adults in McConnells have a college degree.

The per capita income in McConnells in 2018 was $37,212, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,848 for a family of four. However, McConnells contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in McConnells is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

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 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 47.1% 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.

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 McConnells are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.6% 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, 39.8% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.6%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).

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 McConnells, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report English roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (20.1%) . 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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