Afton, Oklahoma.
Typical home $384,299 (+4.9% in a year). Miami, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,197 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,892 +5%
- $366,407$384,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,532 +28%
- $299,768$384,299 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Afton$2,017
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Afton, OK rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Afton, Delaware County, Oklahoma
Afton is a town of 734 people in Delaware County. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Afton is a very small town in Delaware County, in the northeast corner of Oklahoma. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost more than the county's incomes would suggest, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well above freezing in the coldest month, while summers turn hot by August.
Work. People in Afton mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Delaware County, the largest workplaces include Grove Schools, Walmart and Integris Grove Hospital. Almost no one works from home, and the typical commute is a long one. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Afton Station Packard Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away are Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, a large reservoir, and Bernice State Park, a protected area. For a longer drive, the Elk River is one of the area's rivers to explore.
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- 292households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 9,739 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Miami weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware County
- Riggs Tree ServiceArborist services565
- Grove SchoolsSchool district344FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335
- JAY SchoolsSchool district268FTE
- Integris Grove HospitalGeneral hospital245FTE
- East175
- Valence Surface TechnologiesPlating metals and metal products for the trade175
- Cobb-vantressChicken egg production160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,475 people in all across the county; Afton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Afton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Delaware County and the Miami, OK metro.
Afton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Afton$384,299
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Afton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 60 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Afton25.78%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Afton60
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Afton185
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Afton32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Afton$446,213
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Afton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Afton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.