Salters is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,273 people and just one neighborhood, Salters is the 172nd largest community in South Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Salters is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 0.00% of the Salters workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Salters is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salters who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).
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!) Salters 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. Salters has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Salters than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Salters may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 0.00 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Salters doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Salters ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.77% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Salters in 2022 was $10,896, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $43,584 for a family of four.
Salters is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Salters home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Salters residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Salters also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.55% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Salters include African, Polish, German, European, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Salters is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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.
With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, an interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.9% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Also, the neighborhood is unique for having just 0.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 99.4% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.2% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 14.2% have Sub-Saharan African 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 Salters are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 0.0% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.9%).
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 Salters, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (14.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Native American roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.6%). In addition, 12.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (0.0% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.
Here most residents (0.0%) ride a ferry to get to work. This neighborhood has a very special commuting pattern because ferries provide the most common means of getting to work.