 As of the census of 2000, there were 833 people, 346 households, and 217 families in Lake of the Woods, 88 percent of the residents being white — significantly higher than the population of the United States as a whole — which has a population about 75 percent white.There were no African-Americans included in the Lake of the Woods census.The population was somewhat older than the country as a whole, the median age being 39 years in Lake of the Woods and 35 years elsewhere.