About Fort Lawn

Fort Lawn is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 868 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Lawn is the 214th largest community in South Carolina.

Fort Lawn is a blue-collar town, with 42.8% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Fort Lawn is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Lawn who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.19%), sales jobs (8.86%), and food service (7.09%).

Fort Lawn is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Fort Lawn isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.16% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Fort Lawn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Fort Lawn Information and Demographics

The population of Fort Lawn has a very low overall level of education: only 7.54% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Fort Lawn in 2000 was $14,463, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,852 for a family of four.

Fort Lawn is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Lawn home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fort Lawn is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Lawn include English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, and German.

The most common language spoken in Fort Lawn is English. Some people also speak Spanish.