Census-designated place · Ingham County, Michigan

Haslett, Michigan

Haslett is a census-designated place in Ingham County, Michigan, part of the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro area. It has 18,559 residents. Haslett, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,940 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #111 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), primary care physicians (high) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), effective property tax rate (high) and violent crime rate (high).

62High

Quality-of-life score: #5,940 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #111 of 444 in MI
Population: 18,559 (2020-2024)
Land area: 15 mi²
Density: 1,205.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2637100

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety36#10,034/15,637
Economy59#6,487/15,631
Housing36#9,515/14,977
Health58#6,551/15,609
Healthcare80#3,082/15,650
Environment30#10,848/15,453
Education82#2,837/15,649
Infrastructure78#3,450/15,650
Community74#4,009/15,651
Leisure & amenities31#10,717/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Haslett, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Ingham County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Distance to an Amtrak station · low5 mi
95/100Michigan 25 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauIngham County value
Primary care physicians · high126 /100k
95/100Michigan 81 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteIngham County value
New business applications · high23.3 /1k
95/100Michigan 15.0 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauIngham County value
High school diploma or higher · high97.9%
95/100Michigan 92.1%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Mental health providers · high545 /100k
91/100Michigan 371 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteIngham County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · high57.1%
91/100Michigan 32.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high284 min
0/100Michigan 163 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesIngham County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.99%
7/100Michigan 1.19%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Violent crime rate · high531 /100k
9/100Michigan 416 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationIngham County value
Food environment index · low6.7
10/100Michigan 7.1United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteIngham County value
Job growth · low-2.0%
13/100Michigan 0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataIngham County value
Pharmacies · low1.0 /10k
16/100Michigan 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsIngham County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
19,565 (2015-2019) → 18,559 (2020-2024)
−5.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 3.9× (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
42.0% (2015-2019) → 48.2% (2020-2024)
+6.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.9% (2015-2019) → 29.3% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
High school diploma or higherImproving
94.7% (2015-2019) → 97.9% (2020-2024)
+3.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
5.4% (2015-2019) → 3.1% (2020-2024)
−2.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Haslett, Michigan improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Uninsured−2.2 points5.4% → 3.1%

Declined2

Price / income+1.0×2.9× → 3.9×
Rent / income+4.4 points24.9% → 29.3%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Haslett, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.1 min2015-2019	22.3 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	59.0%2015-2019	57.1%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	89.4%2015-2019	90.8%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Child poverty rate	10.3%2015-2019	11.8%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Effective property tax rate	2.01%2015-2019	1.99%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	19%
High school diploma or higher	94.7%2015-2019	97.9%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+1.0×	Declined	22%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4912015-2019	0.4672020-2024	−0.024	Within the margin of error	70%
Median household income	$69,6012015-2019	$74,0312020-2024	+6.4%	Within the margin of error	13%
Poverty rate	9.3%2015-2019	10.4%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Rent as share of income	24.9%2015-2019	29.3%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Declined	25%
Rent-burdened households	42.0%2015-2019	48.2%2020-2024	+6.3 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Unemployment rate	3.3%2015-2019	4.4%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.4%2015-2019	3.1%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Improved	71%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Haslett, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Haslett, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Haslett, Michigan itself moved −9.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

18,559 residents (±984)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

9,174 households (±525)

Haslett, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k15%1,373
$25k–50k19%1,738
$50k–75k17%1,545

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

9,174 households (±525)

Haslett, Michigan
Michigan share

Own59%5,452
Rent41%3,722

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

9,396 workers (±707)

Haslett, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone70%6,543
Carpool5.3%†496
Public transit1.1%†106

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Ingham County, the county holding most of Haslett's residents.

Ingham County has 6,160 employer establishments, 215 for every 10,000 residents (0.87× the US rate of 248; 0.94× Michigan's), with 111,995 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,373. The Census Bureau also counts 21,566 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,160; 21,566 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 215; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 111,995
Average annual pay: $59,373; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Ingham County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	586	20.5	0.98×About typical	8,495	$58,464	1,129
Restaurants and other eating places	511	17.8	0.97×About typical	10,799	$19,973	97
Limited-service restaurants	260	9.1	1.13×About typical	5,192	$17,721	55
Lessors of real estate	240	8.4	0.68×Fewer than typical	2,142	$55,071	2,323
Specialty trade contractors	224	7.8	0.51×Fewer than typical	2,816	$72,297	993
Full-service restaurants	188	6.6	0.85×About typical	4,730	$22,370	33
Religious organizations	181	6.3	1.14×About typical	1,499	$27,100	—
Offices of other health practitioners	178	6.2	1.02×About typical	1,209	$65,045	586
Offices of physicians	163	5.7	0.88×About typical	2,295	$76,858	226
Legal services	157	5.5	1.02×About typical	983	$104,226	234
Insurance agencies and brokerages	152	5.3	1.21×About typical	1,337	$73,297	245
Services to buildings and dwellings	149	5.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	1,677	$33,568	1,217

Rank places for an industry Open Ingham County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 286,405 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $390K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Haslett, Michigan: $21.02 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $390K; +20% vs FY2025
Per resident: $21.02; US $1,994
Sole-source: 13%; US 30%
Single offer: 8.6%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$215.1K55%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$78.8K20%
Department of the Army$29.8K7.6%
Internal Revenue Service$17.4K4.5%
U.S. Geological Survey$17.3K4.4%
National Institutes of Health$15.1K3.9%
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$8,3092.1%
Offices, Boards and Divisions$5,0741.3%

Top recipients

OFFICE DESIGN & FURNISHINGS LLC$173.7K45%
KARAX LLC$78.8K20%
BOWHEAD CORPORATION$60.4K15%
TW PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS LLC$17.4K4.5%
CALEB JOSEPH BRANAM$17.3K4.4%

Spending by fiscal year

308.2KFY2017
503KFY2018
650.2KFY2019
1.6MFY2020
1.8MFY2021
1.5MFY2022
1.7MFY2023
1.4M

Top industries (NAICS)

Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$143.8K37%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$93.9K24%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$52.9K14%
Household and institutional furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing · 3371$29.9K7.7%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$17.4K4.5%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Haslett, Michigan, so they do not add up across cities.

Haslett, Michigan's figures are part of those of Ingham County, MI ($55.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.7% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Haslett is mostly in Ingham County.

See federal money in Ingham County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Haslett, Michigan is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Tom BarrettR-MI-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Ingham County58100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lansing-East Lansing, MI69

Other cities and towns in Ingham County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

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