Cottontown vs Oak Grove

A side-by-side comparison of Cottontown and Oak Grove: population, income, housing, and more.

Cottontown and Oak Grove are places in Tennessee. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Cottontown has the higher population (339 vs 216 in Oak Grove). Oak Grove has the higher median household income ($100,313 vs $85,208 in Cottontown). Cottontown has the higher median home value ($578,900 vs $300,000 in Oak Grove).

Population, income & housing

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
Population	339	216
Median age	40.7 yrs	33.0 yrs
Median household income	$85,208	$100,313
Median home value	$578,900	$300,000
Housing units	162	78
Homeownership rate	69.3%	92.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.0%	28.0%
Unemployment rate	14.8%	5.9%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
Population	320 → 339 (+5.9%)	201 → 216 (+7.5%)
Median household income	$65,667 → $85,208 (+29.8%)	$66,023 → $100,313 (+51.9%)
Median home value	$258,100 → $578,900 (+124.3%)	$142,000 → $300,000 (+111.3%)

Cottontown

Population

320339

Median household income

$65,667$85,208

Median home value

$258,100$578,900

Oak Grove

Population

201216

Median household income

$66,023$100,313

Median home value

$142,000$300,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
Under 5	0.0%	26.9%
5 to 17	25.4%	0.0%
18 to 24	0.0%	6.9%
25 to 34	8.3%	16.7%
35 to 44	23.0%	11.1%
45 to 54	15.0%	13.4%
55 to 64	4.4%	6.5%
65 to 74	19.8%	18.5%
75 and over	4.1%	0.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
White (non-Hispanic)	93.2%	100.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	6.8%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
No high school diploma	10.7%	7.7%
High school graduate	11.9%	43.4%
Some college or associate's	41.5%	21.0%
Bachelor's degree	23.7%	19.6%
Graduate or professional degree	12.3%	8.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
Drove alone	69.6%	63.0%
Carpooled	0.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	11.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	19.3%	37.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
1-unit, detached	91.4%	79.5%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	8.6%	20.5%

Poverty & households

	Cottontown	Oak Grove
Poverty rate	0.0%	28.2%
Average household size	2.22	2.77
Mean commute (minutes)	26	—
Median year structure built	1986	2003