Arapaho, Oklahoma.
Typical home $146,023 (+6.1% in a year). Weatherford, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$413 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,372 +6%
- $137,651$146,023 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,161 +37%
- $106,862$146,023 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.
- Arapaho$766
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Arapaho, OK rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arapaho, Custer County, Oklahoma
Arapaho is a town of 668 people in Custer County. Half its households earn more than $39,632 a year and half less, against $59,738 across Custer County. Unemployment in Custer County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Custer County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arapaho is a small town in Custer County, in western Oklahoma, and the county seat of Custer County is a short trip away. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by only a small share of adults. Homes here are priced modestly. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer afternoons. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many people. Across Custer County, some of the largest workplaces are Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Bar-S Foods Co and Weatherford Schools. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. McLain Rogers Park is a park a short drive away, a handy place for a walk or an afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Foss Reservoir, a reservoir, and Foss State Park, a protected area on its shores. Also a longer drive away, the Stafford Air & Space Museum is a museum for a rainy day.
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- 237households
- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Custer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Custer County had 12,820 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Custer County
- Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college620
- Bar-S Foods CoCooked meats made from purchased carcasses511
- Weatherford SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- Clinton SchoolsSchool district305FTE
- M Wright ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services145
- Weatherford Regional HospitalCritical access hospital140FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,942 people in all across the county; Arapaho has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arapaho’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Custer County and the Weatherford, OK metro.
Arapaho home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arapaho$146,023
- 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 Arapaho address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arapaho — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.