Summerton is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 781 people and two associated neighborhoods, Summerton is the 195th largest community in South Carolina.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.97% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Summerton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Summerton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Summerton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.67 minutes every day commuting to work.
Summerton 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, Summerton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.07% of adults in Summerton have a college degree.
The per capita income in Summerton in 2022 was $25,067, 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 $100,268 for a family of four. However, Summerton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Summerton is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Summerton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summerton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Summerton include English, French, Irish, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Summerton is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.