Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
Typical home $118,686 (+9.7% in a year). Tulsa, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$315 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,490 +10%
- $108,196$118,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,603 +17%
- $101,083$118,686 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.
- Barnsdall$623
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Barnsdall, OK rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnsdall, Osage County, Oklahoma
Barnsdall is a city of 1,034 people in Osage County. Half its households earn more than $49,018 a year and half less, against $62,847 across Osage County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Osage County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnsdall is a small city in Osage County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by only a small share of adults. Winters are cold, with January highs staying cool and lows dropping below freezing, while summers turn hot by August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Osage County, some of the largest workplaces are OSU Medical Center and Trust, Wedlake Fabricating and Walmart. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, though unemployment there is higher than it was a year earlier, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Birch Lake and Lake Waxhoma are both in or beside town, for time by the water. Woolaroc, a protected area, is a short drive away. Osage Hills State Park, also a protected area, is a longer drive away and suits a day out among the hills.
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- 333households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osage County had 8,027 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barnsdall weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osage County
- OSU Medical Center and TrustGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,208
- Wedlake FabricatingMotor generator sets manufacturing266
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Phillips 66 Research CenterChemical research and development laboratories or services156
- Family & Children's ServicesCrisis care center153
- Pawhuska SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Fairfax Community HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Pawhuska HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,449 people in all across the county; Barnsdall 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Barnsdall’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 Osage County and the Tulsa, OK metro.
Barnsdall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnsdall$118,686
- 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 Barnsdall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnsdall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.