Another notable thing is that Lake Ozark is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the city experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller city.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lake Ozark has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lake Ozark a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Lake Ozark is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Lake Ozark are among the most well-educated in the nation: 40.88% of adults in Lake Ozark have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lake Ozark in 2022 was $46,011, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $184,044 for a family of four. However, Lake Ozark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lake Ozark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Ozark residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Ozark include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Lake Ozark is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
