Lake Village is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,985 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lake Village is the 154th largest community in Arkansas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lake Village is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Village is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Village who work in sales jobs (9.54%), office and administrative support (9.06%), and maintenance occupations (8.09%). 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!) Lake Village 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. Lake Village has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Village than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Village may be for you. One of the benefits of Lake Village is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.64 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small city, Lake Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Lake Village citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.53% of adults 25 and older in Lake Village have a college degree. The per capita income in Lake Village in 2022 was $22,914, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,656 for a family of four. However, Lake Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lake Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Village residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Lake Village also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Village include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Lake Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
