It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Lansing 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. Lansing has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lansing than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lansing may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 0.00 minutes getting to work every day.
Lansing is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.
In terms of college education, Lansing ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
Lansing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lansing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lansing residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Lansing include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Lansing is Polish. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
