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Pinewood, SC

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Overview


Pinewood is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 499 people and just one neighborhood, Pinewood is the 230th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Pinewood is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pinewood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinewood who work in sales jobs (15.75%), healthcare (15.75%), and office and administrative support (11.81%).

Pinewood is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Pinewood, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Pinewood citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.95% of adults in Pinewood have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pinewood in 2018 was $18,192, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,768 for a family of four. However, Pinewood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pinewood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Indo-European and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 53.5% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

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 Pinewood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 67.3% of America'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, 43.6% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.9%), and 16.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

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 Pinewood, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (21.4%) . 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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