Canute, Oklahoma.
Typical home $159,337 (+6.4% in a year). Weatherford, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$504 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,543 +6%
- $149,794$159,337 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,410 +35%
- $117,927$159,337 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.
- Canute$836
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Canute, OK rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Canute, Washita County, Oklahoma
Canute is a town of 494 people in Washita County. Half its households earn more than $57,813 a year and half less, against $63,501 across Washita County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Washita County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washita County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canute is a very small town in Washita County, Oklahoma, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes run below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Washita County, the largest workplaces include Cordell Schools, Canute Schools and Cordell Memorial Hospital. Few people work from home, and the county's job count has barely changed from the year before.
Things to do. Foss State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Washita River is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to Foss Reservoir, a good choice for time on the water, and to Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, a protected area that marks an important moment in the region's history.
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- 199households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Washita County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washita County had 1,936 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butler 5SW Mesonet weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washita County
- Western Technology CenterCareer school155
- Cordell SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- Burns Flat-dill City SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- Canute SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Sentinel SchoolsSchool district53FTE
- Cordell Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
- Bird EquipmentFermention tanks, heavy gauge metal tanks, manufacturing24
- Premium Aerospace Center OklahomaAirport passenger screening security services20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44 people in all across the county; Canute has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Canute’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 Washita County and the Weatherford, OK metro.
Canute home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Canute$159,337
- 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 Canute address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canute — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.