Lexington is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 927 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lexington is the 488th largest community in Michigan.Lexington is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lexington is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lexington who work in office and administrative support (19.69%), sales jobs (11.42%), and business and financial occupations (9.25%). Also of interest is that Lexington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. The overall crime rate in Lexington is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Lexington 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. Lexington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lexington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lexington may be for you. Lexington 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 overall education level of Lexington is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.76% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lexington in 2022 was $39,267, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,068 for a family of four. However, Lexington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Lexington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lexington residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lexington include Irish, German, Polish, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Lexington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
