Oil City vs Shreveport

A side-by-side comparison of Oil City and Shreveport: population, income, housing, and more.

Oil City and Shreveport are places in Louisiana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Shreveport has the higher population (183,483 vs 941 in Oil City). Shreveport has the higher median household income ($48,465 vs $17,381 in Oil City). Shreveport has the higher median home value ($178,100 vs $55,600 in Oil City).

Population, income & housing

	Oil City	Shreveport
Population	941	183,483
Median age	28.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
Median household income	$17,381	$48,465
Median home value	$55,600	$178,100
Median gross rent	—	$980
Housing units	533	90,295
Homeownership rate	29.2%	53.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	1.6%	27.5%
Unemployment rate	13.2%	8.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Oil City	Shreveport
Population	998 → 941 (-5.7%)	192,035 → 183,483 (-4.5%)
Median household income	$24,459 → $17,381 (-28.9%)	$39,090 → $48,465 (+24.0%)
Median home value	$92,100 → $55,600 (-39.6%)	$148,100 → $178,100 (+20.3%)
Median gross rent	$432 → $475 (+10.0%)	$812 → $980 (+20.7%)

Oil City

Population

998941

Median household income

$24,459$17,381

Median home value

$92,100$55,600

Median gross rent

$432$475

Shreveport

Population

192,035183,483

Median household income

$39,090$48,465

Median home value

$148,100$178,100

Median gross rent

$812$980

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Oil City	Shreveport
Under 5	11.8%	6.4%
5 to 17	14.0%	17.9%
18 to 24	15.8%	7.9%
25 to 34	13.9%	14.5%
35 to 44	5.5%	12.8%
45 to 54	7.8%	10.9%
55 to 64	18.4%	12.2%
65 to 74	7.5%	10.3%
75 and over	5.2%	7.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Oil City	Shreveport
White (non-Hispanic)	33.9%	35.4%
Black or African American	45.1%	56.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.2%
Asian	1.2%	1.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.2%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.3%
Two or more races	18.8%	2.7%
Hispanic or Latino	0.9%	3.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Oil City	Shreveport
No high school diploma	21.3%	12.7%
High school graduate	34.2%	30.4%
Some college or associate's	42.8%	29.4%
Bachelor's degree	0.5%	15.5%
Graduate or professional degree	1.1%	12.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Oil City	Shreveport
Drove alone	56.2%	80.1%
Carpooled	6.3%	9.8%
Public transit	0.0%	1.3%
Walked	22.1%	1.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	4.2%	5.7%
Other means	11.2%	2.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Oil City	Shreveport
1-unit, detached	40.9%	68.1%
1-unit, attached	1.7%	2.9%
2 to 4 units	3.0%	9.1%
5 to 19 units	21.2%	11.3%
20 or more units	1.5%	6.0%
Mobile home & other	31.7%	2.5%

Poverty & households

	Oil City	Shreveport
Poverty rate	58.4%	23.6%
Average household size	2.02	2.37
Mean commute (minutes)	21	19
Median year structure built	1977	1973