Oakland is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[4] Novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor John Gardner, author of Grendel, The Art of Fiction, On Becoming a Novelist etc., died in a motorcycle accident here.

There were 256 housing units at an average density of 568.9 per square mile (219.7/km2).

The racial makeup of the borough was 98.4% White, 0.5% African American, 0.6% Asian, and 0.5% from two or more races.

21.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.