Bowman is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 765 people and just one neighborhood, Bowman is the 197th largest community in South Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bowman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.24% of the Bowman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bowman is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowman who work in maintenance occupations (14.29%), office and administrative support (10.48%), and teaching (8.57%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.22% 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.
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!) Bowman 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. Bowman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bowman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bowman may be for you.
Being a small town, Bowman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Bowman has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.89% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bowman in 2022 was $17,509, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,036 for a family of four. Bowman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.92% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bowman is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bowman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bowman residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bowman include German, English, Jamaican, Other Subsaharan African, and Nigerian.
The most common language spoken in Bowman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.3% 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.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bowman are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 32.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.5%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households.
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 Bowman, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report English roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (2.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
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 (35.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.