Lake City is a tiny city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 834 people and three associated neighborhoods, Lake City is the 511th largest community in Michigan.Lake City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lake City is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake City who work in sales jobs (12.86%), management occupations (11.62%), and food service (11.20%). It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Lake City 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. Lake City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake City may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lake City spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.19 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. Lake City is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The education level of Lake City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.53% of adults in Lake City have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lake City in 2022 was $34,170, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,680 for a family of four. However, Lake City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Lake City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake City include German, Dutch, Polish, English, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Lake City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
