Lansing is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 118,920 people and 55 constituent neighborhoods, Lansing is the sixth largest community in Michigan.

Lansing is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lansing is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lansing who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.31%), sales jobs (10.49%), and food service (6.49%).

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

Lansing Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Lansing who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.15% of adults in Lansing have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lansing in 2000 was $17,924, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,696 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Lansing is English. Some people also speak Spanish.