Lake ParkNC
A town of 3,609.
Is Lake Park a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Lake Park grades B overall, ranked 50th of 286 in North Carolina. Its schools rank ahead of 84% of North Carolina towns. It is healthier than 80% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is price: the typical home is worth about $372K, 4.5 years of the Charlotte metro’s $83K median household income. Lake Park’s median rent is $2,040 a month, above both North Carolina’s towns ($1,084 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Lake Park's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 97% of U.S. towns.
99% of working residents leave Lake Park for work
Where Lake Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lake Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Lake Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Bank of America Stadium and 17 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaBank of America Stadium
17 mi Theme parkCarowinds
32 mi LakeLake Norman19 mi MuseumSullenberger Aviation Museum70K visitors a year
12 mi Stadium & arenaBojangles Coliseum12 mi TheatreOvens AuditoriumPhoto credits
Bank of America Stadium: HangingCurve, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Carowinds: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Norman: Prince Grobhelm, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bojangles Coliseum: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Lake Park: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lake Park, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Park.
Lake Park is healthier than towns with similar incomes, but it has many renters stretched by housing costs.
For health, Lake Park earns an A−
Against the 10,136 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lake Park’s, it is healthier than 96%, so its A− isn’t only a matter of income.
31% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Lake Park. Lake Park beats the North Carolina average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 12% of adults report frequent physical distress in Lake Park.
| Lake Park | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 34% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 33% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lake Park | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.5% | 13.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.5% | 15.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.9% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
About half of Lake Park’s working residents commute to Charlotte
Most working residents leave Lake Park for work: only 1% work in town. The average trip to work in Lake Park is 31 minutes. Since 2013, Lake Park has lost 55 jobs, to 595 in 2023.
| Lake Park | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 20% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 13% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Fred Kirby Park | — | 17 |
| 2. Russell Park | — | 6 |
| 3. Veterans Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Lake Park has mild winters and hot summers
Lake Park has mild winters and warm summers. Lake Park’s July high is 90°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Older than North Carolina overall
People 65 and older are 25% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (23% statewide). 41% of Lake Park adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Lake Park has grown 9.9% since 2020, to 3,609 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Lake Park | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 25% | 18% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 41% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 43.6 years | 40.1 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 20% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
61% women, 39% men
About 64 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±4.2 points). Across North Carolina, 51.1% of residents are women.
| Lake Park | NC | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.8% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.7% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4.9% | 9.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.1% | 13.4% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.8% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.6% | 12.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.7% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.9% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.4% | 6.9% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.1% | 9.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 14.1% | 24.8% | 26% |
| Some college | 21% | 19.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 15.5% | 10.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 27.5% | 22.2% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.9% | 13.5% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,600, single groups can be off by several points
For cost of living, Lake Park earns a C−
85.1% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 48.9% across North Carolina.
Typical home values fell 2.7% in the year to September 2026.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lake Park faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 51% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Lake Park
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Park
About 4 of every 100 Lake Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across North Carolina.
About Lake Park
Village in North Carolina, United States
Lake Park is a village in Union County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lake Park had a population of 3,269.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 686 ft
Lake Park’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Lake Park.
| Town | NC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Park | #50 | B | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Indian Trail | #31 | B+ | C | — | A− | A− |
| Hemby Bridge | — | — | B− | — | A− | A |
Hemby Bridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lake Park, Indian Trail and Hemby Bridge report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lake Park with a neighbor →
Questions about Lake Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Park, NC a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Lake Park grades B overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #50 of 286 in North Carolina. It grades A− for health and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Lake Park, NC expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.