13,005 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.5% since 2020)
568 square miles of land · 23 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
4 active community water systems list Lake County in the area they serve, reporting 1,177 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BALDWIN, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0000350 | 1,060 served |
| DUVERNAY PARK APARTMENTS groundwater · private · MI0001915 | 68 served |
| IDLEWILD GARDEN HOUSING groundwater · private · MI0007233 | 27 served |
| CLEAN WATER ASSOCIATION, INC. groundwater · private · MI0006901 | 22 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 17 people were held in Lake County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 224 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 25.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Lake County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $11.6 million — $11.4 million to run schools, about $25,713 per student, plus $202,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.6 million local (mostly property tax), $55.9 million state, $1.9 million federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lake County about $5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
31 bridges in Lake County: 13 in good condition, 13 fair, and 5 poor (16.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| QUEENS HIGHWAY over M BR PERE MARQUETTE RIV · built 1904 | 180 vehicles a day |
| 40TH STREET over BALDWIN RIVER · built 1924 | 140 vehicles a day |
| FRANK SMITH ROAD over M BR PERE MARQUETTE RIV · built 1929 | 112 vehicles a day |
| 64TH STREET over M BR PERE MARQUETTE RIV. · built 1909 | 34 vehicles a day |
| PEACOCK ROAD over LITTLE MANISTEE RIVER · built 1929 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.3 million of work in Lake County in fiscal 2025, about $601 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Michigan are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Lake County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Lake County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Osceola County (24 mi) · Wexford County (26 mi) · Newaygo County (30 mi) · Manistee County (31 mi) · Mason County (31 mi) · Mecosta County (34 mi).