About Orchard Lake Village

Orchard Lake Village is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,215 people and just one neighborhood, Orchard Lake Village is the 367th largest community in Michigan.

Orchard Lake Village is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 90.72% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Orchard Lake Village is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orchard Lake Village who work in management occupations (21.15%), sales jobs (16.42%), and healthcare (10.48%).

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

In addition, Orchard Lake Village is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Orchard Lake Village is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Orchard Lake Village a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Orchard Lake Village has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Orchard Lake Village's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Orchard Lake Village is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Orchard Lake Village, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.02% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small city, Orchard Lake Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Orchard Lake Village Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Orchard Lake Village is a pretty powerful place. 61.53% of the adults in Orchard Lake Village have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Orchard Lake Village in 2000 was $67,881, which is wealthy relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $271,524 for a family of four. However, Orchard Lake Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Orchard Lake Village home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Orchard Lake Village is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Orchard Lake Village include German, Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac, English, Polish, Italian, Irish, Russian, and European.

In addition, Orchard Lake Village has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.26%).

The most common language spoken in Orchard Lake Village is English. Some people also speak Arabic.