Mayesville is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 543 people and just one neighborhood, Mayesville is the 227th largest community in South Carolina.
Mayesville real estate is some of the most expensive in South Carolina, although Mayesville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mayesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.11% of the Mayesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mayesville is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mayesville who work in office and administrative support (17.43%), food service (14.14%), and sales jobs (7.57%).
Also of interest is that Mayesville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.51% 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.
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, Mayesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mayesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Mayesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Mayesville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.94% of adults 25 and older in Mayesville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Mayesville in 2022 was $21,065, 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 $84,260 for a family of four. However, Mayesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mayesville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mayesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mayesville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mayesville include African, English, Scottish, Haitian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Mayesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 43 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 7.6% have African 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 Mayesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 36.3% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.
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 Mayesville, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (8.9%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (61.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.