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Lockhart, SC

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Overview


Lockhart is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 370 people and just one neighborhood, Lockhart is the 240th largest community in South Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Lockhart was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Lockhart is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lockhart is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lockhart who work in healthcare (27.27%), management occupations (8.33%), and maintenance occupations (6.82%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Lockhart has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lockhart a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Lockhart, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.98 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Lockhart doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Lockhart has a very low overall level of education: only 9.52% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lockhart in 2022 was $20,581, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,324 for a family of four. However, Lockhart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lockhart is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lockhart home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lockhart residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lockhart include Irish, German, Dutch, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Lockhart is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 94.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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 Lockhart are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.2% 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, 39.1% 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 35.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 4.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Lockhart, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (55.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (94.7%) 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.


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