Byng, Oklahoma.
Typical home $215,512 (+6.1% in a year). Ada, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,312 +6%
- $203,200$215,512 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,629 +25%
- $171,884$215,512 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.
- Byng$1,131
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Byng, OK rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Byng, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
Byng is a town of 1,393 people in Pontotoc County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Pontotoc County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Byng is a small Oklahoma town in Pontotoc County, home to a modest number of people. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is of middle age, with a fair number of adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cool and brief, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. People in Byng work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Pontotoc County, some of the biggest employers are the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center, Flex-N-Gate Ok, and Mercy Hospital ADA. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The McSwain Theatre is a theatre a short drive away, and Konawa Reservoir is a reservoir a short drive away as well. For more time on the water, Little River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 521households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pontotoc County had 20,613 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ada 2NNE Mesonet weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pontotoc County
- Chickasaw Nation Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,292FTE
- Flex-N-Gate OkMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing553
- Mercy Hospital ADAGeneral hospital458FTE
- East Central UniversityUniversity or college405
- ADA SchoolsSchool district396FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Alliancehealth DurantGeneral hospital367FTE
- Dart Container AdaSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing358
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,645 people in all across the county; Byng has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Byng’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 Pontotoc County and the Ada, OK metro.
Byng home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byng$215,512
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Byng address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byng — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.