Oak Grove is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 9,129 people and three associated neighborhoods, Oak Grove is the 100th largest community in Missouri.Oak Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oak Grove is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak Grove who work in office and administrative support (9.31%), management occupations (7.49%), and healthcare (6.79%). Also of interest is that Oak Grove has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One downside of living in Oak Grove is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oak Grove, the average commute to work is 30.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Oak Grove is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, the citizens of Oak Grove rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.39% of adults 25 and older in Oak Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Oak Grove in 2022 was $33,317, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,268 for a family of four. However, Oak Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Oak Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oak Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oak Grove include German, Irish, European, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Oak Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
