Caney, Oklahoma.
Typical home $262,991 (+4.9% in a year). Durant, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$885 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,250 +5%
- $250,741$262,991 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,294 +46%
- $179,697$262,991 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.
- Caney$1,380
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Caney, OK rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caney, Atoka County, Oklahoma
Caney is a town of 185 people in Atoka County. Unemployment in Atoka County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Atoka County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caney is a very small town in Atoka County, in southeastern Oklahoma, with a population small enough that most people know one another by sight. Homes here are valued well above what incomes in the county would suggest, and a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with the coldest weather in January and the warmest in August, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Atoka County, some of the biggest employers are Atoka Schools, Walmart and Atoka County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Water and open country are the main draws nearby. Atoka Reservoir is a reservoir a longer drive away, and McGee Creek State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, sits beside McGee Creek Reservoir. For a look at the past, Fort Washita is a fort a longer drive away, and Fort McCulloch is another.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Atoka County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Atoka County had 3,487 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atoka weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atoka County
- Atoka SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Tushka SchoolsSchool district107FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores103
- Atoka County Medical CenterCritical access hospital94FTE
- Lane SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Stringtown SchoolsSchool district40FTE
- Caney SchoolsSchool district39FTE
- Harmony SchoolsSchool district37FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 130 people in all across the county; Caney has one 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
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Caney’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 Atoka County and the Durant, OK metro.
Caney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caney$262,991
- 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 Caney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.