Heath Springs is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 832 people and just one neighborhood, Heath Springs is the 205th largest community in South Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Heath Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Heath Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Heath Springs is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Heath Springs who work in food service (12.86%), maintenance occupations (11.43%), and healthcare suport services (11.43%).
One downside of living in Heath Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.60 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Heath Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Heath Springs who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.79% of the adults in Heath Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Heath Springs in 2022 was $26,470, 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 $105,880 for a family of four. However, Heath Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Heath Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Heath Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heath Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Heath Springs include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Heath Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 38 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Heath Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 74.3% of America'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, 34.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.6%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).
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 Heath Springs, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (46.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.