Lake Forest is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 58,806 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Lake Forest is the 121st largest community in California.

Lake Forest is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.27% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Forest is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Forest who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.97%), sales jobs (15.15%), and management occupations (14.34%).

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

In addition, Lake Forest is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

The city of Lake Forest is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Lake Forest Information and Demographics

The population of Lake Forest is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 33.89% of adults in Lake Forest have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lake Forest in 2000 was $28,583, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,332 for a family of four. However, Lake Forest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lake Forest is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Forest home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lake Forest is White, followed by Asian. Lake Forest also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.66% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Forest include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Lake Forest also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.13%.

The most common language spoken in Lake Forest is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.