About Lathrup Village

Lathrup Village is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,236 people and just one neighborhood, Lathrup Village is the 251st largest community in Michigan.

Lathrup Village is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.35% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lathrup Village is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lathrup Village who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.63%), sales jobs (11.47%), and teaching (11.07%).

Also of interest is that Lathrup Village has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Of important note, Lathrup Village is also a city of artists. Lathrup Village has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lathrup Village's character.

In addition, Lathrup Village is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Lathrup Village is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Lathrup Village really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lathrup Village perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Lathrup Village is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Lathrup Village isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.88% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Lathrup Village 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.

Lathrup Village Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Lathrup Village. 51.45% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Lathrup Village in 2000 was $35,998, which is wealthy relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,992 for a family of four. However, Lathrup Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lathrup Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lathrup Village home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lathrup Village is African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lathrup Village include German, English, Polish, Irish, African, and Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac.

The most common language spoken in Lathrup Village is English.