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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Lame Deer is a very small town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 1,897 people and just one neighborhood, Lame Deer is the 56th largest community in Montana.
Occupations and Workforce
Lame Deer is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.61% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lame Deer is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lame Deer who work in maintenance occupations (12.76%), office and administrative support (12.30%), and sales jobs (7.89%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Lame Deer. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Lame Deer has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Of important note, Lame Deer is also a town of artists. Lame Deer has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lame Deer’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Lame Deer’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 12.43 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small town, Lame Deer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Lame Deer is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.89% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lame Deer in 2022 was $11,650, which is low income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $46,600 for a family of four. However, Lame Deer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lame Deer also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.52% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Lame Deer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lame Deer residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lame Deer include Irish, German, Greek, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Lame Deer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Navajo.
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.
Occupations
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 74.8% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the 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 Lame Deer are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.0% 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, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (21.4%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Lame Deer, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (90.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.6%), and residents who report German roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.6%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (74.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (8.9%) and 6.9% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
