Lake Mills is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,115 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Mills is the 254th largest community in Iowa.
When you are in Lake Mills, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.37% of Lake Mills’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lake Mills is a city of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Mills who work in healthcare (13.92%), healthcare suport services (7.62%), and management occupations (7.43%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Lake Mills is worth considering.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lake Mills spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.18 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Lake Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Lake Mills citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.27% of adults 25 and older in Lake Mills have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lake Mills in 2022 was $33,609, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,436 for a family of four. However, Lake Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lake Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lake Mills include Norwegian, German, English, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lake Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.7% of America.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.9% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Iowa, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Iowa.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.4% have Danish 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 Lake Mills are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% 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, 35.8% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Lake Mills, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (42.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (37.1%), and residents who report English roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.