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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 82 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. 36.11% 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 professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lodge who work in farm management occupations (27.78%), office and administrative support (25.00%), and art, media, and design (16.67%).

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

The overall crime rate in Lodge is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Lodge is worth considering.

One downside of living in Lodge is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lodge, the average commute to work is 39.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Lodge has a very low overall level of education: only 8.14% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lodge in 2022 was $19,582, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,328 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 26.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lodge include Irish, German, European, Scots-Irish, and English.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.0% 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.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

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 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.7% of America'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, 33.1% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).

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 English (7.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.8%).

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 (41.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (74.0%) 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 (6.5%) . 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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