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Fort Lawn is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 973 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Lawn is the 189th largest community in South Carolina.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fort Lawn is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 49.71% of the Fort Lawn workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fort Lawn is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Lawn who work in office and administrative support (9.82%), teaching (7.27%), and management occupations (6.29%).
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Fort Lawn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fort Lawn, the average commute to work is 32.18 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fort Lawn 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.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Fort Lawn rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.95% of adults 25 and older in Fort Lawn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Fort Lawn in 2022 was $25,254, 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 $101,016 for a family of four. However, Fort Lawn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Lawn is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Lawn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Lawn residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Lawn include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Fort Lawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fort Lawn, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 98.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.
Occupations
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Furthermore, with 3.1% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 97.6% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.3% 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.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fort Lawn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.5% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.6%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fort Lawn, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
