Yemassee is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,082 people and two associated neighborhoods, Yemassee is the 181st largest community in South Carolina.When you are in Yemassee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.04% of Yemassee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Yemassee is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yemassee who work in office and administrative support (12.53%), sales jobs (9.40%), and farm management occupations (7.31%). Yemassee is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Yemassee, 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. 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, Yemassee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Yemassee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Yemassee, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.57 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Yemassee is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The rate of college-level education in Yemassee is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.38% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Yemassee in 2022 was $26,606, 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 $106,424 for a family of four. Yemassee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.40% of its population below the federal poverty line.Yemassee is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Yemassee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yemassee residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Yemassee include European, Irish, Swedish, Scots-Irish, and Other Subsaharan African. The most common language spoken in Yemassee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
