One downside of living in Oak Grove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.58 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Oak Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Oak Grove are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.70% of adults in Oak Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Oak Grove in 2018 was $29,921, 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 $119,684 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, English, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Oak Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
