General Info

 

Lakewood is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 51,385 people and 19 constituent neighborhoods, Lakewood is the 15th largest community in Ohio. Lakewood has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

 

Lakewood is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.66% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lakewood is a city of professionals, sales and office workers and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lakewood who work in office and administrative support (14.03%), sales jobs (11.65%) and management occupations (10.71%).

 

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

 

Another interesting thing about Lakewood, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

 

Although the majority of commuting trips in the city are by private automobile, Lakewood is somewhat unusual for a city of its size for having a substantial number of people who use public transportation. For a lot of people, the bus helps to get to and from their jobs every morning, which benefits everyone in the Lakewood area by reducing both traffic and air pollution.

 

Lakewood Information and Demographics

 

The education level of Lakewood ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Lakewood, 40.24% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

 

The per capita income in Lakewood in 2010 was $28,088, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,352 for a family of four. However, Lakewood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

 

Lakewood is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lakewood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lakewood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lakewood include Irish, German, Italian, English, Polish and Slovak.

 

The most common language spoken in Lakewood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.

2010 - present