 It is primarily a service town for the surrounding rural areas, growing grain and sheep.Lameroo now includes the former settlements of Kulkami, Mulpata, Wirha and Gurrai, which were on the Peebinga railway line, and Wilkawatt, which was between Parrakie and Lameroo on the Pinnaroo railway.At the 2016 census, the locality of Lameroo had a population of 852 of which 562 lived in and around its town centre.