JoannaSC
A town of 1,306, settled in 1948.
Is Joanna a good place to live?
The best of Joanna’s subject grades is an A+ for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Joanna has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Joanna stand out
Where Joanna beats most towns.
1,306 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Joanna grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within South Carolina), ordered by how far Joanna is from typical.
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Moving to Joanna: who provides what
Joanna is unincorporated, so Laurens County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Joanna.
The median rent in Joanna is lower than in most of South Carolina or the rest of the country
A typical home in Joanna is worth about $129,000, up 3% in a year, 58% below the South Carolina typical home. Two thirds of Joanna households live in a home they own, close to South Carolina’s towns (65%) and below U.S. towns (73%).
| Joanna | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $625 a month | $1,060 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 65% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Joanna’s public schools trail 59% of South Carolina districts
The Laurens 56 school district runs its public schools. Its one school is below. 293 students attend Joanna’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joanna-Woodson ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 293 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within SC on state tests and graduation
Most of Joanna’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.0 jobs for each of them
For half of commuters, work is under 31 miles away. Just over a fifth of Joanna residents live below the poverty line, where South Carolina’s towns sit at 17% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Commuting out is the norm here: 1% of working residents work locally. The mean commuting time locally is 20 minutes.
| Joanna | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 21% | 17% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 6.1% | 8% |
| Median household income | $49,000 | $57,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Joanna, with cold waves at the top
FEMA puts 45% of Joanna’s expected hazard losses down to cold waves, and 23% to inland flooding. On expected storm and flood damage, Joanna sits below just over two thirds of U.S. communities. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Joanna once, in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Joanna, expect mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons reach 91°, January nights drop to 33° and about 1 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Joanna is less healthy than 51% of U.S. towns
The share of adults in Joanna who have diabetes: 13%. A third of adults sleep under 7 hours locally.
| Joanna | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 38% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 37% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 14% |
| What stands out | Joanna | SC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.2% | 13.9% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 6% | 6.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Protected land: 0.4% of Joanna
Count the trails in 2 parks and preserves and they come to 1.1 miles. Parks and preserves in Joanna: 2, covering 9 acres.
| Joanna | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.4% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Joanna's Park | 0.5 mi | 8 |
| 2. Blalock Memorial Veterans Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Joanna
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Joanna
About 1 of every 100 Joanna residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across South Carolina.
99% of working residents leave Joanna for work
Where Joanna’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about Joanna
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Joanna, SC expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.