LakeviewGA
A town of 4,723.
Is Lakeview a good place to live?
Lakeview gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $172K for a typical one, or 2.4 years of the Chattanooga metro’s $72K median household income. It grades B overall, 55th among Georgia's 258 graded towns. On the outdoors, just 8 of Georgia’s 374 towns do worse. Lakeview’s average trip to work is 21 minutes, below both Georgia’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Among 263 Georgia towns, just 5 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Lakeview.
100% of working residents leave Lakeview for work
Where Lakeview’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lakeview grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Lakeview is from typical.
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Ruby Falls and 19 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lakeview. Close and well known come first.
6 mi WaterfallRuby Falls
11 mi MountainLookout Mountainin town Theme parkLake Winnepesaukah23 mi CaveEllison's Cave
6 mi Zoo & aquariumTennessee Aquarium
2 mi National Military ParkChickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park972K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Ruby Falls: Oydman (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lookout Mountain: Teke, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tennessee Aquarium: Ɱ, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: Lhughesw5, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Lakeview: who provides what
Lakeview is unincorporated, so Catoosa County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lakeview.
Lakeview sends many workers across the state line to East Ridge and has hotter summers than most of the country, though not than most of Georgia.
About two in five of Lakeview’s working residents commute to Chattanooga
44% of working residents cross a state line to work, East Ridge among the top destinations. Lakeview has 190 jobs for its 1,851 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Lakeview for work: only 0% work in town. Jobs based in Lakeview fell to 190 in 2023, 134 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Chattanooga (42%), Fort Oglethorpe (8%) and Ringgold (4%).
| Lakeview | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lakeview is less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns
Lakeview beats the Georgia average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 16% of Lakeview adults report frequent physical distress.
| Lakeview | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 39% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Lakeview | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7.4% | 9.6% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.9% | 15% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.8% | 6.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lakeview has mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 89.2°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 79% of Georgia places with climate records; January nights average 31.1°.
Lakeview has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The January low in Lakeview is 31°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Lakeview | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 31°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 89°F | 90°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lakeview faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 52% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 54 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Lakeview.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Lakeview
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Lakeview
About 3 of every 100 Lakeview residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
About Lakeview
Place in Georgia, United States
Lakeview is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Catoosa and Walker counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 4,820 at the 2000 census and 4,777 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 768 ft
Lakeview’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Lakeview.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeview | #55 | B | A | — | B+ | C |
| Fort Oglethorpe | #84 | B− | B+ | — | B+ | C+ |
| Rossville | #160 | C− | A− | — | B− | D |
Lakeview, Fort Oglethorpe and Rossville report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lakeview with a neighbor →
Questions about Lakeview
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lakeview, GA a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Lakeview grades B overall, better than 61% of U.S. towns and #55 of 258 in Georgia. It grades C for health and B+ for schools.
Is Lakeview, GA expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.