Pequot Lakes is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,462 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pequot Lakes is the 287th largest community in Minnesota.

Of important note, Pequot Lakes is also a city of artists. Pequot Lakes has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pequot Lakes’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Pequot Lakes telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.18% 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.

Overall, Pequot Lakes’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Pequot Lakes 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. Pequot Lakes has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pequot Lakes than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pequot Lakes may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Pequot Lakes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

In terms of college education, Pequot Lakes is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.04% of adults in Pequot Lakes have a college degree.

The per capita income in Pequot Lakes in 2022 was $38,602, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $154,408 for a family of four. However, Pequot Lakes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pequot Lakes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pequot Lakes residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pequot Lakes include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Pequot Lakes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.