LIVING IN LAKE OZARK
Lake Ozark is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,077 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Lake Ozark is the 268th largest community in Missouri.
Lake Ozark real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Lake Ozark house values don’t compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Lake Ozark is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.05% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Ozark is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Ozark who work in sales jobs (12.63%), management occupations (11.94%), and food service (10.31%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.77% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Another notable thing is that Lake Ozark is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the city 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 city.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lake Ozark has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lake Ozark a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Lake Ozark is a small city, and as such doesn’t have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Lake Ozark are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.24% of adults in Lake Ozark have a bachelor’s degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lake Ozark in 2018 was $39,749, which is wealthy relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,996 for a family of four. However, Lake Ozark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lake Ozark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Ozark residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Ozark include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Lake Ozark is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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