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Scranton, SC

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Overview


Scranton is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 654 people and just one neighborhood, Scranton is the 215th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Scranton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Scranton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Scranton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Scranton who work in sales jobs (15.54%), food service (13.78%), and healthcare (11.14%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.41% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Scranton 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. Scranton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Scranton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Scranton may be for you.

One downside of living in Scranton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Scranton, the average commute to work is 31.37 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Scranton 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.

Demographics

In Scranton, just 6.95% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Scranton in 2018 was $19,301, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,204 for a family of four. However, Scranton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Scranton is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.7% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Scranton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.3% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.9%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

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 Scranton, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.1%). There are also a number of people of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.9%), and residents who report Scottish roots (2.7%), and some of the residents are also of Haitian ancestry (2.3%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (26.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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