Cartwright, Oklahoma.
Typical home $219,634 (-0.6% in a year). Durant, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$625 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,400 -1%
- $221,034$219,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,986 +17%
- $187,648$219,634 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.
- Cartwright$1,153
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Cartwright, OK fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cartwright, Bryan County, Oklahoma
Cartwright, in Bryan County, had 492 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Bryan County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bryan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cartwright is a very small community in Bryan County, Oklahoma, where neighbors tend to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the county are modest. Homes are valued well within reach of many buyers. Winters are cool and mild by northern standards, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and the occasional melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Bryan County, some of the biggest employers are Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant Schools and Walmart. Getting to work usually takes a short drive, and the county's job market has grown only slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Texoma, a large reservoir, lies in or beside town, and Eisenhower State Park, a protected area on its shore, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site, a museum. For a longer outing, Fort Washita is an old fort that makes a good day trip.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Bryan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bryan County had 21,978 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sherman weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bryan County
- Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college591
- Durant SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters436
- WebstaurantStoreGeneral warehousing and storage359
- Cardinal FG0306
- Commercial Metals CompanyBars, concrete reinforcing made in steel mills221
- Silo SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Roll Offs of AmericaBins, light gauge metal, manufacturing140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,986 people in all across the county; Cartwright has none of its own. Colleges come 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesVery 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 Cartwright’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 Bryan County and the Durant, OK metro.
Cartwright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cartwright$219,634
- 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.
- Cartwright8
Zip codes with a Cartwright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cartwright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.