Sellers is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 146 people and just one neighborhood, Sellers is the 279th largest community in South Carolina.
When you are in Sellers, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 63.89% of Sellers’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sellers is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sellers who work in teaching (19.44%), maintenance occupations (13.89%), and healthcare suport services (2.78%).
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!) Sellers 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. Sellers has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sellers than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sellers may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Sellers doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Sellers ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.07% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sellers in 2022 was $14,482, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,928 for a family of four. Sellers also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 60.64% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Sellers is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sellers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sellers residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sellers include English, African, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Sellers 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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.4% 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.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American 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 Sellers are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.1% 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, 44.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.0%), and 11.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Sellers, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.8%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.