Lake Delton is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,490 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lake Delton is the 221st largest community in Wisconsin.Unlike some villages, Lake Delton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Delton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Delton is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Delton who work in food service (19.90%), sales jobs (14.84%), and maintenance occupations (9.22%). It is a fairly quiet village 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 Delton 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 Delton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Delton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Delton may be for you. One of the benefits of Lake Delton is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.82 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 village, Lake Delton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Lake Delton citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.19% of adults 25 and older in Lake Delton have a college degree. The per capita income in Lake Delton in 2022 was $30,211, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,844 for a family of four. However, Lake Delton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lake Delton is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lake Delton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Delton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lake Delton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.91% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Delton include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Lake Delton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
