Allen, Oklahoma.
Typical home $179,365 (+3.1% in a year). Ada, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,409 +3%
- $173,957$179,365 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,776 +29%
- $138,589$179,365 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.
- Allen$941
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Allen, OK rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Allen, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
Allen is a town of 805 people in Pontotoc County. Unemployment in Pontotoc County was 3.7% 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 manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Allen is a small town in Pontotoc County, home to a small community that is close-knit in the way small towns tend to be. Residents are around the age of the typical American, and a four-year degree is less common here than across the country as a whole. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and a fair number of households live on tight budgets. Winters are cool, with a light dusting of snow in some years, and summers turn quite hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also providing a good share of jobs. Across Pontotoc County, the largest workplaces include Chickasaw Nation Medical Center, Flex-N-Gate Ok and Mercy Hospital ADA. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. The Little River is a short drive away and is the closest place to get out on the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Holdenville, a reservoir, and to the McSwain Theatre. Kullihoma Grounds, a park, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 365households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pontotoc County had 20,613 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holdenville 2SSE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pontotoc County
- Chickasaw Nation Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,292FTE
- Flex-N-Gate OkMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing553
- Mercy Hospital ADAGeneral hospital458FTE
- East Central UniversityUniversity or college405
- ADA SchoolsSchool district396FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Alliancehealth DurantGeneral hospital367FTE
- Dart Container AdaSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing358
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,645 people in all across the county; Allen has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Allen’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 Pontotoc County and the Ada, OK metro.
Allen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Allen$179,365
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Allen13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Allen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Allen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Allen
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74825 | Allen | 1,788 | — | $176,623 |
| 74531 | Calvin | 834 | — | $163,753 |