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Arcadia, SC

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Overview


Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 3,246 people and just one neighborhood, Arcadia is the 101st largest community in South Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Arcadia was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Arcadia economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Arcadia, where the median household income is $39,931.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Arcadia is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Arcadia is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arcadia who work in management occupations (12.38%), sales jobs (12.31%), and healthcare suport services (10.46%).

Also of interest is that Arcadia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Arcadia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Arcadia with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.26% of adults in Arcadia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Arcadia in 2018 was $19,963, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,852 for a family of four. However, Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Arcadia also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.28% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Arcadia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Arcadia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Arcadia, accounting for 42.62% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Arcadia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Arcadia include German, English, Austrian, Other Subsaharan African, and Swedish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Arcadia's cultural character, accounting for 26.49% of the town’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of all American neighborhoods.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Arcadia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.4% 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, 44.6% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese and French.

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 Arcadia, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Asian roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (42.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.2%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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