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Pelion, SC
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Pelion profile


Living in Pelion



Pelion is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 625 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Pelion is the 216th largest community in South Carolina.

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

One downside of living in Pelion, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.16 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

The percentage of adults in Pelion who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.39% of the adults in Pelion have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pelion in 2018 was $24,518, 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 $98,072 for a family of four. However, Pelion contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pelion is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pelion home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pelion residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pelion also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.28% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pelion include Irish, English, European, German, and Norwegian.

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