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Little Mountain, SC

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Overview


Little Mountain is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 258 people and just one neighborhood, Little Mountain is the 260th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Little Mountain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Little Mountain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Little Mountain is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Little Mountain who work in sales jobs (16.04%), business and financial occupations (13.21%), and management occupations (11.79%).

Of important note, Little Mountain is also a town of artists. Little Mountain has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Little Mountain’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.66% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Little Mountain is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Little Mountain really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Little Mountain perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Little Mountain 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.

Demographics

The population of Little Mountain is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.67% of adults in Little Mountain have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Little Mountain in 2022 was $36,338, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,352 for a family of four. However, Little Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Little Mountain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

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.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of South Carolina. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

The Neighbors

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 Little Mountain are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.1% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 43.8% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.0%), and 14.6% 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 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).

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 Little Mountain, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (30.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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