Lamar is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 843 people and just one neighborhood, Lamar is the 190th largest community in South Carolina.
Lamar is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lamar is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lamar who work in sales jobs (29.07%), office and administrative support (10.42%), and teaching (6.03%).
Also of interest is that Lamar has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Lamar telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Lamar has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lamar a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Lamar does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Lamar who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.14% of adults in Lamar have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lamar in 2022 was $29,392, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,568 for a family of four. However, Lamar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lamar is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lamar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lamar residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lamar include Irish, German, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Lamar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.
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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 Lamar are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 29.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 21.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 Lamar, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report English roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.