Oakland, KY population, income and ZIP codes

Oakland city is a very small community in Kentucky, with 230 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #449 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 18% of them. The median age here is 51.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Oakland city earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 18.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Oakland city is valued at $142,200, 53.1% below the national figure and 10% below the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $900 a month, 36% below the national figure, or roughly $10,800 across a full year. 87.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 51.5 puts Oakland city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 230 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Oakland city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Oakland city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.