Lake Village is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,856 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lake Village is the 154th largest community in Arkansas.
A relatively large number of people in Lake Village telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.35% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One of the benefits of Lake Village is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.02 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Lake Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Lake Village who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.39% of the adults in Lake Village have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lake Village in 2022 was $24,883, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,532 for a family of four. However, Lake Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Village residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Lake Village also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.79% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Village include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Lake Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.