Big Cabin, Oklahoma.
Typical home $260,152 (+3.7% in a year). Tulsa, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$780 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,401 +4%
- $250,751$260,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,585 +23%
- $211,567$260,152 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.
- Big Cabin$1,365
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Big Cabin, OK rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Cabin, Craig County, Oklahoma
Big Cabin is a town of 174 people in Craig County. Unemployment in Craig County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Craig County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Cabin is a very small town in Craig County, in northeastern Oklahoma, with a population that fits comfortably in a few short streets. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes alone might suggest, and incomes across Craig County sit modestly in the middle of what Oklahoma households earn. Winters are cold and brief, with only light snowfall, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents of Big Cabin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Craig County, the largest workplaces include Home of Hope, KAMO Power and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Grand Lake o' the Cherokees is a large reservoir, and the Elk River runs through the region, both a longer drive away. Cherokee State Park is a protected area on the lake's shore, also a longer drive away, and Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park is a roadside museum of folk art, again a longer drive away.
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- 8%work from home
What people in Craig County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Craig County had 4,967 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 6 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spavinaw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Craig County
- Home of HopeGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability541
- KAMO PowerElectric power transmission systems394
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters192
- Vinita SchoolsSchool district190FTE
- Saint Francis Hospital VinitaGeneral hospital112FTE
- Ketchum SchoolsSchool district79FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services79
- Welch SchoolsSchool district51FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,307 people in all across the county; Big Cabin 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Cabin’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 Craig County and the Tulsa, OK metro.
Big Cabin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Cabin$260,152
- 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.
- Big Cabin9
Zip codes with a Big Cabin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Cabin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.