Lake LoreleiOH
A town of 1,746.
Is Lake Lorelei a good place to live?
The best of Lake Lorelei’s subject grades is an A− for incomes; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Lake Lorelei’s average trip to work is 37 minutes, against 24 minutes in Ohio’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. On walkability, just 67 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse. On the outdoors, just 5 of Ohio’s 1,718 towns do worse. Lake Lorelei has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Lake Lorelei for work
Where Lake Lorelei’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lake Lorelei grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Lake Lorelei is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lake Lorelei: who provides what
Lake Lorelei is unincorporated, so Brown County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Lorelei.
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Lake Lorelei than in most of Ohio or the rest of the country
0.4% of Lake Lorelei working residents work locally, below both the Ohio town median (6.9%) and the median of U.S. towns (8%). The median household income in Lake Lorelei is $114,000. The top destinations are Cincinnati (7%), Blue Ash (4%) and Wilmington (4%).
| Lake Lorelei | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $114,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.2% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 6.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Lake Lorelei is less healthy than 66% of U.S. towns
Lake Lorelei beats the Ohio average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 41% of Lake Lorelei adults have high blood pressure.
| Lake Lorelei | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 38% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 38% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 28% | 25% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Lake Lorelei | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.4% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults without reliable transportation | 6.2% | 7.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.3% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lake Lorelei has four seasons and pleasant summers
Lake Lorelei has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 22° and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer young adults than Ohio overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (22% statewide). Lake Lorelei’s median age is 49.5 years. 24% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Ohio.
| Lake Lorelei | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 49.5 years | 41.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 21% | 20% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.9 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women. Among residents 65 to 74, 73% are men (OH 47%).
| Lake Lorelei | OH | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.7% | 11.7% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.5% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.4% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.4% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.1% | 12.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 8.2% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 22.7% | 13.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.7% | 10.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.3% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.5% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 53.6% | 32.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.6% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 2.1% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.4% | 19.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 5.8% | 12.2% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
Low risk in Lake Lorelei, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 62% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Lake Lorelei sell for about $309K
92% of households own their home in Lake Lorelei.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Kings Island and 57 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake Lorelei. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
31 mi MountainSerpent Mound
30 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
29 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
30 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
30 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumPhoto credits
Kings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Serpent Mound: The British Library, No restrictions · Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Lake Lorelei
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Lorelei
About 2 of every 100 Lake Lorelei residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
About Lake Lorelei
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
Lake Lorelei is a gated community and census-designated place in Brown County, Ohio, United States, near the village of Fayetteville. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,172.
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- Area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 925 ft
Questions about Lake Lorelei
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Lorelei, OH expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $289,000, 18% above the Ohio typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.