Oak RidgeTX
A town of 1,671.
Is Oak Ridge a good place to live?
The best of Oak Ridge’s subject grades is an A for incomes; the weakest is a D for walkability. Oak Ridge's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns. Only 97 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score lower on the outdoors. Oak Ridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Oak Ridge for work
Where Oak Ridge’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Oak Ridge grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Oak Ridge is from typical.
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Moving to Oak Ridge: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Oak Ridge, and how to reach them.
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 Ridge.
Health in Oak Ridge trails 88% of U.S. towns
Among adults 18 to 64 in Oak Ridge, 18% have no health insurance, where Texas’ towns sit at 18% and U.S. towns at 8.1%. 24% of Oak Ridge adults worry about having enough food. In Oak Ridge, just over two in five adults sleep under 7 hours, and 20% report frequent mental distress.
| Oak Ridge | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Oak Ridge | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 8.6% | 5.7% |
| More smokers | 18.5% | 12.5% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 18.5% | 12.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Oak Ridge than in most of Texas or the rest of the country
Half commute less than 34 miles. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Oak Ridge rose by 32, to 39. Also worth knowing: the town’s average trip to work is 36 minutes. Its income of the median household is $97,000, above both Texas’ towns ($69,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Oak Ridge | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 36 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 2.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $97,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Homes in Oak Ridge are worth about $384K, by Zillow’s estimate
In Oak Ridge, 90% of households are owner-occupiers.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Mild winters and hot summers in Oak Ridge
July afternoons reach 94°, January nights drop to 36° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest natural risk in Oak Ridge is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Of the losses FEMA expects in Oak Ridge, 52% come from inland flooding and 13% from tornadoes. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 64% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Oak Ridge
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Oak Ridge
About 8 of every 100 Oak Ridge residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Oak Ridge
Town in Texas, United States
Oak Ridge is a town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. The population was 771 at the 2020 census, up from 495 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 430 ft
Oak Ridge’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oak Ridge reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Oak Ridge with a neighbor →
Questions about Oak Ridge
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oak Ridge, TX expensive?
That is 4.3 years of the area's median household income ($90,275 across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.