Joanna is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,517 people and just one neighborhood, Joanna is the 161st largest community in South Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Joanna is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.80% of the Joanna workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Joanna is a town of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Joanna who work in maintenance occupations (10.88%), teaching (7.81%), and architecture and engineering (7.81%).
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!) Joanna 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. Joanna has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Joanna than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Joanna may be for you.
Being a small town, Joanna does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Joanna ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.73% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Joanna in 2022 was $26,108, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,432 for a family of four. However, Joanna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Joanna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Joanna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Joanna include German, Irish, Canadian, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Joanna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Thai.
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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.
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 Joanna are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.4% 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, 36.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.3%), and 6.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.4%).
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 Joanna, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Canadian ancestry (4.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (29.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.