Bethany, Oklahoma.
Typical home $175,099 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,266 (+0.3%). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$471 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,211 -1%
- $177,310$175,099 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,158 +21%
- $144,941$175,099 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.
- Bethany$919
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Bethany, OK fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bethany, OK rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bethany runs $19/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $158 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,248 a month against $1,266 rent: a $919 mortgage payment, plus $141 property tax and $187 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bethany
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,248
- Renting$1,266
- Mortgage only$919
Property tax · $141/mo 0.97% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Oklahoma County, OK
Insurance & upkeep · $187/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Bethany, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Bethany is a city of 20,831 people in Oklahoma County. Half its households earn more than $56,591 a year and half less, against $66,679 across Oklahoma County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Oklahoma County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Bethany is a small city inside the Oklahoma City area, with a younger population than is typical across much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than is usual for the county. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for a city this size, so renting is common, and typical home values and rents sit at moderate levels. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month and afternoons that get very hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Bethany are The Children's Center, Southern Nazarene University and Bethany Schools. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people leave home for work rather than working from home, with a commute of a fairly ordinary length. Unemployment across Oklahoma County has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Lake Overholser and Elden Lyon Park are in or beside town, a reservoir and a park for time outdoors. A short drive away are the Oklahoma City National Memorial, a museum, and the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. Lake Hefner, another reservoir, is also a short drive away.
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- 7,604households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oklahoma County had 497,127 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 73°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oklahoma City Post Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bethany
- The Children's CenterChildren's hospitals, general949
- Southern Nazarene UniversityUniversity or college475
- Bethany SchoolsSchool district219FTE
- The Grand at Bethany Skilled Nursing and TherapySkilled nursing facilities116
- Southwestern Christian UniversityUniversity or college110
- Bethany Cedar RidgePsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals81
- SodexoFood service contractors53
- BethanyMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,225 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of BethanyRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of BethanyRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BethanyRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethany’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Oklahoma County and the Oklahoma City, OK metro.
Bethany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethany$175,099
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Bethany listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — 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.
- Bethany29.34%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethany64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bethany20
Zip codes with a Bethany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.