Lansing is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 112,537 people and 52 associated neighborhoods, Lansing is the sixth largest community in Michigan.
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!) Lansing 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. Lansing has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lansing than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lansing may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lansing spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 0.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Even though Lansing is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.
The population of Lansing has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
Lansing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lansing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lansing residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Lansing include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Lansing is Polish. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.