Pinewood is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 499 people and just one neighborhood, Pinewood is the 230th largest community in South Carolina.
Pinewood is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pinewood is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinewood who work in office and administrative support (31.39%), sales jobs (9.42%), and maintenance occupations (5.83%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Pinewood. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
In Pinewood, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.73 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Pinewood 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.
In terms of college education, Pinewood is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.47% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pinewood in 2022 was $17,953, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,812 for a family of four.
Pinewood is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pinewood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinewood residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Pinewood include Irish, Welsh, French Canadian, Swedish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Pinewood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Indo-European and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Pinewood, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.5% 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.
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 Pinewood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.1% 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 78.5% 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, 50.8% 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 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
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 Pinewood, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (17.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.