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Catawba, SC

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Overview


Catawba is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,301 people and just one neighborhood, Catawba is the 173rd largest community in South Carolina.

Catawba real estate is some of the most expensive in South Carolina, although Catawba house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Catawba is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.91% of the Catawba workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Catawba is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catawba who work in office and administrative support (22.54%), healthcare suport services (8.80%), and management occupations (8.45%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Catawba is worth considering.

One downside of living in Catawba, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.60 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Catawba is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.03% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Catawba in 2022 was $29,684, 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 $118,736 for a family of four. However, Catawba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Catawba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Catawba are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.3% of America'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, 35.7% 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 35.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.3%), and 13.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Catawba, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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