Eastover is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 621 people and just one neighborhood, Eastover is the 218th largest community in South Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eastover is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.50% of the Eastover workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eastover is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eastover who work in office and administrative support (12.92%), maintenance occupations (12.44%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.66%).
Also of interest is that Eastover has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Eastover 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. Eastover has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eastover than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eastover may be for you.
In Eastover, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
For a small town, Eastover has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Eastover exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
In terms of college education, Eastover ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.50% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Eastover in 2022 was $16,329, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,316 for a family of four. Eastover also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.56% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Eastover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eastover residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Eastover include African, Scots-Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Eastover is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Eastover, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.9% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 11.4% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
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 Eastover are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 28.1% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.7%), and 21.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Eastover, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (4.7%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.3%) 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 (19.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.