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Alcolu, SC

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Overview


Alcolu is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 402 people and just one neighborhood, Alcolu is the 239th largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Alcolu, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.85% of Alcolu’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Alcolu is a town of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Alcolu who work in food service (36.79%), farm management occupations (15.09%), and personal care services (9.43%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Alcolu work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

A relatively large number of people in Alcolu telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 20.75% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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!) Alcolu 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. Alcolu has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alcolu than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alcolu may be for you.

Alcolu 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

In terms of college education, Alcolu is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.45% of adults 25 and older in Alcolu have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Alcolu in 2022 was $14,766, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,064 for a family of four. However, Alcolu contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Alcolu also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 55.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Alcolu is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alcolu 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 Alcolu, accounting for 49.09% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Alcolu residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Alcolu include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 23 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Alcolu are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.9% 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, 35.3% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.4%).

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 Alcolu, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (10.9%). There are also a number of people of Scottish ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report British roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (53.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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