8) Lake Angelus
Go through any lists of ranked places in Michigan and you’ll find Lake Angelus on it. Why? It’s simple: the city’s crime rate is 89 percent lower than the state’s average crime rate, and it’s safer than 96 percent of all the cities in the U.S. Only four percent of the cities in the entire country could be called safer than Lake Angelus. Here’s something more that’ll blow your mind completely — almost 100 percent of the residents are high school graduates. The high school graduation rate is 17 percent higher than the rest of Michigan. More than two-thirds of the total population are college graduates. The poverty rate is 93 percent lower than the national average; the unemployment rate is 87 percent lower. The median household income is 232 percent higher than the rest of the state. In addition to all these impressive stats, Lake Angelus gets A+ for its amenities in almost all ratings. It has all it takes to support a healthy community life.
