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.
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%).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 5.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.6% 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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
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.
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 (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.