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Bethune town, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Bethune town is a Census town of 438 people across 1.10 square miles of land, in Kershaw County. Median household income is $44,000, 66.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Bethune
What Bethune is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.1 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land397 plus or minus 169
- County holding the largest share of its areaKershaw County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethune
How many people live in Bethune
- Population438 plus or minus 186
- Median age41.7 plus or minus 13.0
- Population under 1898 plus or minus 39
- Share under 1822.4 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Population 65 and over108 plus or minus 46
- Share 65 and over24.7 percent
- Households204 plus or minus 83
- Family households124 plus or minus 66
- Share of households that are families60.8 percent plus or minus 20.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethune
Income and work in Bethune
- Median household income$44,000 plus or minus $24,487
- Per capita income$27,912 plus or minus $9,176
- Civilian labor force153 plus or minus 67
- Employed143 plus or minus 62
- Unemployed10 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate6.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Adults 25 and over284 plus or minus 104
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.9 percent plus or minus 42.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.8 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.8 percent plus or minus 8.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethune
Housing in Bethune
- Housing units256 plus or minus 97
- Occupied units204 plus or minus 83
- Vacant units52 plus or minus 46
- Vacancy rate20.3 percent plus or minus 16.2
- Owner occupied136 plus or minus 45
- Renter occupied68 plus or minus 64
- Ownership rate66.7 percent plus or minus 35.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$106,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,591 plus or minus $997
- Annual rent as a share of median income43.4 percent plus or minus 36.4
- Single family units239 plus or minus 97
- Share single family93.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more2.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1960
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethune
How Bethune gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute139 plus or minus 60
- Commuting under 15 minutes20 plus or minus 13
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.4 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more67 plus or minus 35
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.2 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone78.2 percent plus or minus 47.1
- Carpooled19.0 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home2.1 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kershaw County, not Bethune
Kershaw County context, not Bethune figures
These are Kershaw County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bethune measurements.
- Establishments in Kershaw County1,208
- Employment at those establishments, Kershaw County14,923
- Covered employment, Kershaw County18,335
- Average annual pay, Kershaw County$49,084
- Average weekly wage, Kershaw County$944
- Housing units permitted, Kershaw County474
- Of those, single family, Kershaw County368
- County product, 2024, Kershaw County$3,416,986,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kershaw County11.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kershaw County$61,319
Every figure in this section is published for Kershaw County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bethune. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Bethune questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bethune, South Carolina?
438, in 204 households. Bethune town covers 1.10 square miles of land, which is 397 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bethune in?
Kershaw County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Bethune?
$44,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $106,800. Median gross rent is $1,591 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Bethune figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kershaw County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Bethune.
Is zoning published for Bethune?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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