Bennington, Oklahoma.
Typical home $305,556 (+0.7% in a year). Durant, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,030 (+180%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,177 +1%
- $303,379$305,556 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,079 +42%
- $214,477$305,556 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.
- Bennington$1,604
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Bennington, OK rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bennington, Bryan County, Oklahoma
Bennington is a town of 282 people in Bryan County. Unemployment in Bryan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bryan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bennington is a very small town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, home to only a small number of people. Homes here are typically valued well above what the county's modest household incomes might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people who work in the area are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, in shops, or in manufacturing.
Work. Most residents do not work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, so many people travel some distance for their jobs. Across Bryan County, some of the largest workplaces are Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant Schools and Walmart. The county's job market has changed little over the past year, and unemployment there has crept up slightly.
Things to do. Water and open country are the main draws nearby. Coffee Mill Lake is a reservoir and Caddo National Grassland is a protected area, and both are a longer drive away. For a look at the region's past, Fort Washita is a historic fort, also a longer drive away. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 107households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Bryan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bryan County had 21,978 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durant 6SSE Mesonet weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bryan County
- Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college591
- Durant SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters436
- WebstaurantStoreGeneral warehousing and storage359
- Cardinal FG0306
- Commercial Metals CompanyBars, concrete reinforcing made in steel mills221
- Silo SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Roll Offs of AmericaBins, light gauge metal, manufacturing140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,986 people in all across the county; Bennington has one of its own. Colleges come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bennington’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 Bryan County and the Durant, OK metro.
Bennington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bennington$305,556
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Bennington listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bennington13.36%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bennington19
Zip codes with a Bennington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bennington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.