Another notable thing is that Osage Beach is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the city experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller city.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Osage Beach has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Osage Beach a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Osage Beach is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.08 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Osage Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Osage Beach is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.73% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Osage Beach in 2022 was $32,224, 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 $128,896 for a family of four. However, Osage Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Osage Beach is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Osage Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osage Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Osage Beach include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Osage Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
