Hopkins is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 2,514 people and three associated neighborhoods, Hopkins is the 118th largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hopkins is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hopkins is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hopkins who work in office and administrative support (16.46%), healthcare (12.23%), and sales jobs (11.38%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.95% 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. 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!) Hopkins 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. Hopkins has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hopkins than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hopkins may be for you. In Hopkins, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.73 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. For a small town, Hopkins has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride taxis. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Hopkins exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.In terms of college education, Hopkins is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.62% of adults 25 and older in Hopkins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Hopkins in 2022 was $29,284, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,136 for a family of four. However, Hopkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hopkins is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hopkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hopkins residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hopkins include English, African, Italian, Irish, and German. The most common language spoken in Hopkins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
