Lake Park is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,412 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Park is the 333rd largest community in Georgia. Lake Park has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Lake Park, where the median household income is .
Lake Park is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.44% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Park is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Park who work in healthcare suport services (15.40%), office and administrative support (14.25%), and healthcare (12.64%).
A relatively large number of people in Lake Park telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.07% 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.
In Lake Park, just 11.13% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lake Park in 2022 was $40,843, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,372 for a family of four. However, Lake Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lake Park also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.41% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Lake Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Park include English, German, Polish, Scottish, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Lake Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lake Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.1% 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, 43.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Lake Park, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.