Lamar is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 847 people and just one neighborhood, Lamar is the 190th largest community in South Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Lamar isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lamar are a mix of both white- and blue-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.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Lamar has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Lamar has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lamar than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lamar may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Lamar doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Lamar is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.14% of adults 25 and older in the town 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.
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.
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 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
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.
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 (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.