Blackwell, Oklahoma.
Typical home $63,056 (-6.7% in a year). Ponca City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$167 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,520 -7%
- $67,576$63,056 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,176 +9%
- $57,881$63,056 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.
- Blackwell$331
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Blackwell, OK fell 6.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blackwell, Kay County, Oklahoma
Blackwell is a city of 6,085 people in Kay County. Half its households earn more than $53,435 a year and half less, against $58,423 across Kay County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Kay County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blackwell is a small city in Kay County, Oklahoma, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home costs less than in much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, snow falls on some days each year, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. The largest workplaces in Blackwell include Blackwell Schools, Blackwell Regional Hospital and Walmart. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home. Across Kay County, unemployment has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs grew over the last year.
Things to do. A short drive away, the A. D. Buck Museum of Science and History and the Pickens Museum offer local history and science, and the North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is a place for a quiet walk among plantings. For time on the water, Kaw Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away. The Poncan Theatre, also a longer drive, is a theatre for stage shows and film.
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- 2,351households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kay County had 17,568 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blackwell 1SSW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blackwell
- Blackwell SchoolsSchool district139FTE
- Blackwell Regional HospitalGeneral hospital87FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores83
- CMCBuilding panels, corrugated and flat, plastics, manufacturing55
- Kay Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power50
- Parrish EnterprisesFoundries, steel investment42
- Los Angeles Boiler WorksExchangers, heat, manufacturing33
- Blackwell Regional HospitalGeneral hospital30FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 285 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blackwell’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 Kay County and the Ponca City, OK metro.
Blackwell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blackwell$63,056
- 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 6 Blackwell 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.
- Blackwell16.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blackwell27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Blackwell7
Zip codes with a Blackwell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blackwell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.