Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
Typical home $336,707 (+0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$950 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $701 +0%
- $336,006$336,707 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,426 +2%
- $329,281$336,707 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.
- Broken Bow$1,767
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Broken Bow, OK rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Broken Bow is a city of 4,228 people in McCurtain County. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in McCurtain County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Broken Bow is a small city in McCurtain County, in the forested southeastern corner of Oklahoma. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number are rented. Typical home values run well above what the county's incomes would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and short, with little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Among the largest workplaces in town are Broken BOW Schools, Pan Pacific Products, a manufacturer of MDF, and Walmart. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across McCurtain County has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs in the county grew over the most recent full year.
Things to do. Beavers Bend Resort Park is a short drive away, and the Little River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also close by. Broken Bow Lake, a reservoir, lies a longer drive away, and the Mountain Fork river runs nearby as well. The surrounding woods and waters make the area a natural choice for a day outdoors.
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- 1,523households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McCurtain County had 12,445 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Broken Bow North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Broken Bow
- Broken BOW SchoolsSchool district196FTE
- Pan Pacific ProductsMdf manufacturing134
- WalmartDiscount department stores118
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 252 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively 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 Broken Bow’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 McCurtain County.
Broken Bow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Broken Bow$336,707
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Broken Bow listings, and the typical home goes pending in 90 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Broken Bow14.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Broken Bow90
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Broken Bow493
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Broken Bow63
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Broken Bow$638,483
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Broken Bow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Broken Bow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.