LakeviewGA
The town has 4,723 residents and lies in Georgia.
Is Lakeview a good place to live?
Lakeview’s strongest subject is cost of living: a typical home costs about $172K, 2.4 years of the Chattanooga metro’s $72K median household income. The drawback is health: residents are less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Put together, the subjects come to a B overall, ranking 55th of 258 in Georgia. It comes out better than 61% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 8 of Georgia’s 374 towns do worse. The town’s typical journey to work is 21 minutes, below both Georgia’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for walkability and B− for hazard risk.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US.
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.
How TownRatings grades towns →
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.
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Lakeview than in most of Georgia or the rest of the country
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.
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%). Among residents here, 13% live below the poverty line. Half the trips to work are shorter than 6 miles.
| Lakeview | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 9.2% | 8% |
| 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 earns a C for health
The share of adults in Lakeview who have diabetes: 13%. The town does better than the Georgia average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 7. Among adults here, 37% feel lonely and 17% smoke cigarettes.
| 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
The climate in Lakeview brings 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’s January low comes in at 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
The natural-hazard score from FEMA in Lakeview is 48 of 100. 54 flood insurance claims have been paid here since 1979. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 35% come from inland flooding and 25% from tornadoes.
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.