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.
When you are in Lodge, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.14% 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 (31.43%), office and administrative support (28.57%), and art, media, and design (14.29%).
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.
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.
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, Lodge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lodge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lodge, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.43 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lodge 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 Lodge, just 7.69% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lodge in 2022 was $17,735, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,940 for a family of four. However, Lodge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lodge is an extremely 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 30.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lodge include Irish, European, German, Scots-Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lodge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.5% 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, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.5% of America.
With 2.1% 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 96.4% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Furthermore, 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 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.
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 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.4% 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, 31.6% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 20.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.6%).
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 Lodge, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (43.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.