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%). There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Yemassee, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community. 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!) Yemassee 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. Yemassee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yemassee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yemassee may be for you. One downside of living in Yemassee is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Yemassee, the average commute to work is 32.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Yemassee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Yemassee with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
