Copake vs Copake Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Copake and Copake Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Copake and Copake Lake are places in New York. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Copake Lake has the higher population (860 vs 178 in Copake). Copake Lake has the higher median household income ($118,632 vs $111,089 in Copake). Since 2019, Copake Lake's population has grown faster (+25.0% vs -48.6%).

Population, income & housing

	Copake	Copake Lake
Population	178	860
Median age	35.7 yrs	61.3 yrs
Median household income	$111,089	$118,632
Median home value	—	$546,100
Housing units	99	735
Homeownership rate	56.3%	94.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.2%	56.6%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	2.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Copake	Copake Lake
Population	346 → 178 (-48.6%)	688 → 860 (+25.0%)
Median household income	$97,237 → $111,089 (+14.2%)	$66,111 → $118,632 (+79.4%)
Median home value	$168,100 → $185,300 (+10.2%)	$276,000 → $546,100 (+97.9%)
Median gross rent	$1,589 → $1,540 (-3.1%)	—

Copake

Population

346178

Median household income

$97,237$111,089

Median home value

$168,100$185,300

Median gross rent

$1,589$1,540

Copake Lake

Population

688860

Median household income

$66,111$118,632

Median home value

$276,000$546,100

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Copake	Copake Lake
Under 5	5.1%	0.8%
5 to 17	13.5%	9.8%
18 to 24	0.0%	3.6%
25 to 34	17.4%	7.8%
35 to 44	33.7%	9.8%
45 to 54	0.0%	9.5%
55 to 64	7.9%	25.8%
65 to 74	10.7%	21.0%
75 and over	11.8%	11.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Copake	Copake Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	99.4%	90.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.8%
Two or more races	0.6%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	8.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Copake	Copake Lake
No high school diploma	20.7%	5.7%
High school graduate	59.3%	30.1%
Some college or associate's	4.8%	7.6%
Bachelor's degree	7.6%	28.0%
Graduate or professional degree	7.6%	28.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Copake	Copake Lake
Drove alone	64.4%	75.8%
Carpooled	0.0%	0.0%
Public transit	30.7%	1.0%
Walked	0.0%	2.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.0%	18.0%
Other means	0.0%	2.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Copake	Copake Lake
1-unit, detached	100.0%	98.6%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	1.4%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Copake	Copake Lake
Poverty rate	0.0%	0.8%
Average household size	2.51	2.24
Mean commute (minutes)	—	31
Median year structure built	1954	1981