Pleasant Lake is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,697 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Lake is the 201st largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasant Lake is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Lake is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Lake who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), sales jobs (11.43%), and maintenance occupations (8.70%).
Also of interest is that Pleasant Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.52% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Pleasant Lake 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. Pleasant Lake has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pleasant Lake than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pleasant Lake may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Pleasant Lake doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Pleasant Lake who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.32% of the adults in Pleasant Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Lake in 2022 was $33,763, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,052 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasant Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Lake include German, English, Irish, European, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Pleasant Lake, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 96.7% of neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 Pleasant Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.1% of America'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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.7%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Pleasant Lake, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.