Boswell, Oklahoma.
Typical home $121,835 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$389 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,668 +6%
- $115,167$121,835 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,366 +38%
- $88,468$121,835 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.
- Boswell$639
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Boswell, OK rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Boswell is a town of 579 people in Choctaw County. Half its households earn more than $25,662 a year and half less, against $44,081 across Choctaw County; 51% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Choctaw County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boswell is a small town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where the people are younger than in much of the country and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one for such a small place. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Choctaw County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Hugo Schools and Choctaw Memorial Hospital. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, and each of these is a longer drive away. Caddo National Grassland is a protected area of open public land, and Blue River is one of the better-known rivers nearby. For time on the water, Hugo Lake is a reservoir, and Pat Mayse Lake is a lake, both a longer drive from town.
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- 297households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 51%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Choctaw County had 5,372 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Antlers 5NW weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Choctaw County
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies456
- LIFT Community Action AgencyPreschool centers262
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters188
- Hugo SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Choctaw Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital94FTE
- Western Farmers Electric CooperativeElectric power generation, fossil fuel68
- Soper SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Fort Towson SchoolsSchool district50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,109 people in all across the county; Boswell 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boswell’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 Choctaw County.
Boswell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boswell$121,835
- 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 Boswell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boswell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.