Pacolet is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,477 people and just one neighborhood, Pacolet is the 129th largest community in South Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Pacolet isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pacolet are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pacolet is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pacolet who work in food service (14.82%), office and administrative support (11.78%), and teaching (11.68%).
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!) Pacolet 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. Pacolet has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pacolet than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pacolet may be for you.
Pacolet is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Pacolet who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.38% of the adults in Pacolet have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pacolet in 2022 was $26,255, 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 $105,020 for a family of four. However, Pacolet contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pacolet is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pacolet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pacolet residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pacolet include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Pacolet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Arabic.
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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Pacolet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.7% 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, 36.2% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.3%).
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 Pacolet, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%).
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 (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (24.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.