Lake IsabellaMI
A town of 1,952.
Is Lake Isabella a good place to live?
Lake Isabella’s weakest subject grade is a D for health. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. Lake Isabella’s median age is 48.1 years, above both the Michigan town median (42.5 years) and the median of U.S. towns (40.5 years). Only 7 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns score lower on history. Lake Isabella has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Lake Isabella for work
Where Lake Isabella’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Lake Isabella grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Lake Isabella is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lake Isabella: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lake Isabella, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Isabella.
Residents of Lake Isabella are less healthy than 86% of U.S. towns
Lake Isabella beats the Michigan average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 43% of Lake Isabella adults have high blood pressure, against 36% in Michigan’s towns and 35% across U.S. towns. 17% of adults report frequent physical distress in Lake Isabella.
| Lake Isabella | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 36% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 37% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 12% | 12% |
| What stands out | Lake Isabella | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.6% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 11.5% | 8.1% |
| More adults with heart disease | 9.4% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lake Isabella has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Lake Isabella for work: only 1% work in town. Since 2011, Lake Isabella has lost 87 jobs, to 53 in 2021. 5.8% of Lake Isabella residents live below the poverty line.
| Lake Isabella | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.8% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
In Lake Isabella, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Lake Isabella has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 14° and about 61 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Older than Michigan overall
People 65 and older are 26% of residents (19% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (22% statewide). Lake Isabella has grown 3.3% since 2020, to 1,952 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 33% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Michigan.
| Lake Isabella | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 26% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 23% | 21% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 31% and 61% women
The Census survey reached too few of Lake Isabella’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±14.6 points. Across Michigan, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Lake Isabella | MI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.2% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.2% | 10.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.8% | 9.2% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 4.2% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10% | 12.2% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 8.8% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.7% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 16.9% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.1% | 7.4% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.7% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 29.5% | 28% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.5% | 21.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.3% | 9.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.7% | 19.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.3% | 12.7% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,000, single groups can be off by several points
Lake Isabella has set aside 6.6% of its land for conservation
1.8 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Lake Isabella | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 6.6% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Maynard S. Gilmore Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Moderate risk in Lake Isabella, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 53% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Lake Isabella since 2014.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lake Isabella’s typical home value is about $266K
The typical Lake Isabella home is worth about $266,000, up 5.9% in a year, close to the Michigan typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Lake Isabella
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Isabella
About 4 of every 100 Lake Isabella residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Lake Isabella
Village in Michigan, United States
Lake Isabella is a village within Isabella County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The village is split between Broomfield Township to the south and Sherman Township to the north. As of the 2020 census, Lake Isabella had a population of 1,829.
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- Area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 781 ft
Lake Isabella’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Lake Isabella.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Isabella | — | — | B− | — | B− | D |
| Sherman Township | #688 | D− | C+ | — | B− | C− |
| Broomfield Township | — | — | C+ | — | C+ | C− |
Lake Isabella and Broomfield Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lake Isabella, Sherman Township and Broomfield Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lake Isabella with a neighbor →
Questions about Lake Isabella
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Isabella, MI expensive?
That is 4.8 years of the area's median household income ($55,237 across the Mount Pleasant, MI area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.