Pequot Lakes is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,464 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pequot Lakes is the 287th largest community in Minnesota.Pequot Lakes is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pequot Lakes is a city of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pequot Lakes who work in management occupations (12.56%), sales jobs (8.65%), and food service (7.42%). A relatively large number of people in Pequot Lakes telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.49% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Overall, Pequot Lakes’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. Being a small city, Pequot Lakes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The overall education level of Pequot Lakes citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.56% of adults in Pequot Lakes have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%. The per capita income in Pequot Lakes in 2022 was $37,668, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,672 for a family of four. However, Pequot Lakes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Pequot Lakes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pequot Lakes residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pequot Lakes include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English. The most common language spoken in Pequot Lakes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
