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Lodge, SC

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Overview


Lodge is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 84 people and just one neighborhood, Lodge is the 292nd largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lodge, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.23% of Lodge’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lodge is a town of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lodge who work in office and administrative support (26.92%), farm management occupations (26.92%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.69%).

Of important note, Lodge is also a town of artists. Lodge has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lodge’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Lodge’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Lodge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lodge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Lodge, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.05 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In Lodge, just 9.01% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lodge in 2018 was $20,853, 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 $83,412 for a family of four. However, Lodge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lodge is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lodge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lodge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lodge also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 26.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lodge include Irish, European, German, English, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Lodge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.6% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lodge are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 25.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.4%), and 21.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Lodge, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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