Lake Odessa is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,062 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Odessa is the 352nd largest community in Michigan.
When you are in Lake Odessa, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.84% of Lake Odessa’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lake Odessa is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Odessa who work in office and administrative support (9.38%), sales jobs (8.21%), and business and financial occupations (6.16%).
Also of interest is that Lake Odessa has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Lake Odessa telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.03% 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, Lake Odessa’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Lake Odessa is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lake Odessa, the average commute to work is 31.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Lake Odessa doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Lake Odessa are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.30% of adults in Lake Odessa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lake Odessa in 2022 was $33,726, 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 $134,904 for a family of four. However, Lake Odessa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Odessa is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lake Odessa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Odessa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Odessa include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Lake Odessa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.8% have Slovak ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lake Odessa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% 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 58.6% 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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish and Italian.
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 Odessa, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (5.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.