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The count is 879; the current estimate is 735; both print, labelled. The best current carrier is the ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimate as rendered by the Missouri Census Data Center: total population 735, 345 households, median age 36.2, median household income $62,772 — with its caveat printed as this build prints it: most Lakeville ACS cells carry high relative margins of error by the renderer's own flagging, and the estimate sits 144 below the 2020 decennial count (879) without the town having lost a seventh of itself; the two are different instruments. A third series (the Census Bureau's annual estimates) prints as a third series: 878 is the Estimates Program's July 1, 2024 value; a "876" rendering circulates mislabelled as 2024 — it is the program's 2022 value; and 873 remains unconfirmed (assembly conform, DELTA-B-3). Government stands at pointer (the government file): council Kelly, Hathaway, Rouch; Clerk-Treasurer Skwiercz; Marshal/Chief Howard; the December 2025 department report — 119 calls, 12 assists, 3 reports, 1 ticket. The school rename is live: LaVille Community Schools since the board's 4–0 vote of 8 June 2026, the signage and directory layer lagging the vote in the normal order. The water project is complete June 2026 on the town's own timeline, a successor-tower fund already running since 2022 for the next replacement in thirty to fifty years. Its Facebook output, read through a syndicated mirror rather than first-hand, is its working noticeboard; the first-hand read is a named gap. What a visitor finds in November 2026: a small Michigan Road town on SR 931 — town hall, churches, two parks, the 1931 listed school building, Hoosier's gate, the lakes in the township around it — and no bank, no museum, no hotel, each tested in its own leg.