Amber, Oklahoma.
Typical home $197,676 (+5.2% in a year). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,842 +5%
- $187,834$197,676 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,122 +28%
- $154,554$197,676 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.
- Amber$1,038
- 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 Amber, OK rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amber, Grady County, Oklahoma
Amber is a town of 413 people in Grady County. Unemployment in Grady County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Amber is a very small town in Grady County, Oklahoma, where residents tend to be somewhat older than in the country as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with only a little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Grady County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Chickasha Schools and Grady Memorial Hospital. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Oklahoma City National Memorial is a museum a longer drive away, and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is another. Fort Reno, also a longer drive away, is an old fort, and the Myriad Botanical Gardens offer a botanical garden in the same direction.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grady County had 13,811 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 71°. About 5 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chickasha Experiment Station weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grady County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Chickasha SchoolsSchool district330FTE
- Genesis EndeavorsPetrochemical plant construction306
- Grady Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital255FTE
- W.H. BraumCookie and cracker manufacturing247
- WHB CattleDairy cattle and milk production229
- Tuttle SchoolsSchool district220FTE
- Bridge Creek SchoolsSchool district218FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,328 people in all across the county; Amber has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Amber’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 Grady County and the Oklahoma City, OK metro.
Amber home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amber$197,676
- 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.
Zip codes with a Amber address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amber — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.