Asher, Oklahoma.
Typical home $185,023 (+7.2% in a year). Shawnee, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$612 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,383 +7%
- $172,639$185,023 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,901 +36%
- $136,121$185,023 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.
- Asher$971
- 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 Asher, OK rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Asher, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Asher is a town of 370 people in Pottawatomie County. Unemployment in Pottawatomie County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pottawatomie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Asher is a very small town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short of harsh, summers turn hot by August, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Pottawatomie County, the largest workplaces include St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Georg Fischer Central Plastics and Shawnee Schools. The commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day travelling to and from work. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Thunderbird is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Lake Thunderbird State Park, a protected area, sits in the same direction. For something indoors, the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum is also a longer drive away, which makes it an outing for a free day rather than an evening.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
What people in Pottawatomie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pottawatomie County had 22,842 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Byars 3ESE Mesonet weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pottawatomie County
- St Anthony Shawnee HospitalGeneral hospital734FTE
- Georg Fischer Central PlasticsPipe fittings, rigid plastics, manufacturing650
- Shawnee SchoolsSchool district519FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters495
- Oklahoma Baptist UniversityUniversity or college344
- Van Eaton Ready MixReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing289
- Tecumseh SchoolsSchool district274FTE
- Shawnee Milling CompanyMixes, flour made in flour mills267
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,433 people in all across the county; Asher has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Asher’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 Pottawatomie County and the Shawnee, OK metro.
Asher home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Asher$185,023
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Asher13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Asher address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Asher — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.