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Estill, SC

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Overview


Estill is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,767 people and just one neighborhood, Estill is the 147th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Estill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Estill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Estill is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Estill who work in maintenance occupations (33.46%), office and administrative support (7.33%), and healthcare suport services (5.50%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Estill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Estill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Estill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Estill, the average commute to work is 38.91 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The population of Estill has a very low overall level of education: only 7.02% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Estill in 2022 was $20,704, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,816 for a family of four. However, Estill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Estill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 99.9% of all American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 14.6% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.7% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 6.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.6% of America's neighborhoods.

Also, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 6.6% have African ancestry.

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 Estill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 61.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (14.6%), and 8.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Estill, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (9.9%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report African roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (65.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (22.2%) . 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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