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.
When you are in Catawba, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.77% of Catawba’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Catawba is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catawba who work in office and administrative support (19.30%), healthcare suport services (11.61%), and management occupations (11.47%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Catawba has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Catawba a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Catawba, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Catawba 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.
The education level of Catawba citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.56% of adults in Catawba have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Catawba in 2022 was $28,074, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,296 for a family of four. However, Catawba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Catawba is an extremely 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 Spanish and Langs. of India.
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.
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, 9.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 44.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.0% 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 53.3% of America'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, 34.1% 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 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.8%), and 15.7% 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 98.2% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Catawba, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.