Oak GroveMS
2,098 people call this town in Mississippi home.
Is Oak Grove a good place to live?
The best of Oak Grove’s subject grades are an A− for health and schools; the weakest is a C− for cost of living. 60% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Oak Grove, against 25% in Mississippi’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Only 8 of Mississippi’s 187 towns score higher on health. On the outdoors, just 6 of Mississippi’s 187 towns do worse. Oak Grove has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Oak Grove stand out
Where Oak Grove beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Oak Grove | MS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.6% | 8.6% |
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove Elementary | PK–5 | 758 |
| Learning Tree Christian Academy | PK–2 | 72 |
| Oak Grove Middle School | 6–8 | 1,160 |
99% of working residents leave Oak Grove for work
Where Oak Grove’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Oak Grove grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Mississippi), ordered by how far Oak Grove is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Oak Grove: who provides what
Oak Grove is unincorporated, so Lamar 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 Oak Grove.
Oak Grove’s schools rank ahead of 78% of Mississippi districts
One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Its public schools are run by the Lamar County School District. 2 public schools serve Oak Grove, with 1,918 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,160 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MS on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of adults in Oak Grove say their health is fair or poor than in the typical Mississippi or U.S. town
10% of adults report frequent physical distress in Oak Grove. This Mississippi town beats the Mississippi average on 18 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. Also worth knowing: only 4 of the 102 Mississippi towns we compare have a lower share of adults who have diabetes than Oak Grove.
| Oak Grove | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 16% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.4% | 16% | 12% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 27% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 14% |
| What stands out | Oak Grove | MS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.6% | 8.6% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.1% | 7.5% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 74.7% | 79.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
More than half of Oak Grove’s working residents commute to Hattiesburg
The top destinations are Hattiesburg (54%), Purvis (3%) and Petal (3%). Only 1% of working residents stay in Oak Grove for work; the rest commute out. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 118, to 225. For residents locally, the share who live below the poverty line is 8.3%.
| Oak Grove | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1% | 19% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.3% | 21% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest natural risk in Oak Grove is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Only 10 of the 102 Mississippi towns we compare have a lower FEMA hazard score than Oak Grove. FEMA puts 31% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 25% to hurricanes. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 62% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Oak Grove sells for about $274K
In Oak Grove, 66% of households live in a home they own.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Hattiesburg Zoo and 5 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oak Grove. Close and well known come first.
33 mi MuseumLauren Rogers Museum of Art
8 mi MuseumAfrican American Military History Museum
14 mi MuseumMississippi Armed Forces Museum50K visitors a year24 mi Zoo & aquariumCollins Zoo
6 mi GardenAll-American Rose GardenPhoto credits
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Michlaovic, Public domain · African American Military History Museum: Woodlot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mississippi Armed Forces Museum: Woodlot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · All-American Rose Garden: Dudemanfellabra, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Oak Grove
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Oak Grove
About 7 of every 100 Oak Grove residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Mississippi.
About Oak Grove
Census-designated place in Mississippi, United States
Oak Grove is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located in Lamar County, Mississippi, United States. The settlement is a suburb located immediately west of Hattiesburg. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 1,758.
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- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 407 ft
Questions about Oak Grove
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oak Grove, MS expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $222,000, 14% above the Mississippi typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.