Another notable thing is that Lake Arrowhead is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
It is a fairly quiet town 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 Arrowhead 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 Arrowhead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Arrowhead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Arrowhead may be for you.
In Lake Arrowhead, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.48 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Lake Arrowhead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Lake Arrowhead citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.33% of adults in Lake Arrowhead have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lake Arrowhead in 2022 was $52,386, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $209,544 for a family of four. However, Lake Arrowhead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Arrowhead is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lake Arrowhead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Arrowhead residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Lake Arrowhead also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.97% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Arrowhead include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Lake Arrowhead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
