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SheetGA-OAKWOOD-GA · Oakwood, GA 5,499 pop · income 37th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Oakwood
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Oakwood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Adel · lowest
35,897
Adel · lowest
35,897 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #1
Pine Grove · near
61,187
Pine Grove · near
61,187 median HH income
42.5% of the leader · rank #2
Milan · near
61,188
Milan · near
61,188 median HH income
42.5% of the leader · rank #3
Copper Hill · near
61,189
Copper Hill · near
61,189 median HH income
42.5% of the leader · rank #4
Oakwood · this city
61,191
Oakwood · this city
61,191 median HH income
42.5% of the leader · rank #5
Guilford Lake · near
61,196
Guilford Lake · near
61,196 median HH income
42.5% of the leader · rank #6
Strawberry CD… · highest
144,130
Strawberry CD… · highest
144,130 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Oakwood on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 5,499.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Oakwood - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Oakwood lands in the 37th percentile for household income and the 29th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
37th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
29th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Oakwood, GA
5,499 people live in Oakwood, Georgia - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $61,191 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.5%. Home values in Oakwood run a median of $255,400, and the median resident age is 31.9 years. About 20.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 256 residential building permits were authorized in Oakwood (Building Boom), up 169% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2119.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Georgia scores 96.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Georgia run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 39.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Oakwood's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Oakwood, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Oakwood?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 20.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Which cities make useful reference points for Oakwood?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Sylvester (5,557 residents, $59,808 income); Conley (5,404 residents, $45,598 income); Adel (5,619 residents, $35,897 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Marlin, TX (5,500 residents); Kodiak, AK (5,497 residents); Strawberry CDP (Marin County), CA (5,496 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Oakwood?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2119.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 7% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Oakwood?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
79.8%
Work from home
6.9%
Public transit
0.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,973 workers age 16+.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,391 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +49.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 256 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
4,854
2025 estimate
7,245
Period change
+49.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 5.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
D
City profile score · Oakwood, GA
49/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate C+
5.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living C
96.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime C-
171 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$61,191
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Oakwood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.5%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 171 /100k
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $61,191
Bachelor's+ share: 35/100 (F) · 20.1%
Where Oakwood sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Oakwood's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Oakwood highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Oakwood, GA (this city): home $255,400, crime 2,120/100k
Marlin, TX : home $49,800, crime 1,196/100k
Kodiak, AK : home $314,800, crime 1,267/100k
Verdigris, OK : home $215,400, crime 510/100k
Mead, CO : home $552,100, crime 1,025/100k
Osceola, IA : home $145,300, crime 2,208/100k
Sylvester, GA : home $125,000, crime 1,506/100k
Eastman, GA : home $145,300, crime 5,670/100k
Senoia, GA : home $382,700, crime 224/100k
How does Oakwood compare to other US cities?
Oakwood measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety29% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Georgia, Oakwood ranks #92 of 166 Georgia cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Oakwood against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Georgia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Georgia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Oakwood near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Oakwood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Oakwood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#252 of 610
59th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#139 of 577
76th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#480 of 637
24th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#265 of 638
58th percentile in Georgia
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Georgia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
37th percentile nationally for median household income · 29th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Oakwood's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Oakwood's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Oakwood's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$255,40043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Oakwood's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,179 of 15,516
More affordable than 28% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,676 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.2×, Oakwood sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,179 of 15,516 and #8,676 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$61,191Oakwood, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Oakwood, GA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Oakwood, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,499
Median Income
$61,191
Median Home Value
$255,400
Median Age
31.9
Poverty Rate
5.5%
Labor force participation
69.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2119.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
170.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1949.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Oakwood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,854 residents
2021
5,373 residents
2022
5,979 residents
2023
6,427 residents
2024
6,828 residents
2025
7,245 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
256
housing units authorized
Single-Family
50
detached homes
Multifamily
206
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
46.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
95
45
50
$11.9M
2020
268
154
114
$51.1M
2021
301
90
211
$46.6M
2022
221
162
59
$47.0M
2023
179
91
88
$19.3M
2024
256
50
206
$50.6M
Permit volume increased 169% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.8%
Carpool
11.9%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.9%
Other
0.7%
Based on 2,973 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Georgia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Georgia at $225 (electricity about $125 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Georgia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Oakwood. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Georgia's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Oakwood is $1,203/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Georgia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.5 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Georgia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Oakwood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Oakwood compares to similar-size Georgia cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.