Sand Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Sand Lake 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. Sand Lake has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sand Lake than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sand Lake may be for you.
Sand Lake is a small village, 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 Sand Lake have a very low rate of college education: just 8.70% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Sand Lake in 2022 was $27,564, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,256 for a family of four. However, Sand Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sand Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Sand Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sand Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sand Lake include German, French, Irish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Sand Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
