Chouteau, Oklahoma.
Typical home $214,273 (+4.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$631 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,728 +5%
- $204,545$214,273 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,146 +24%
- $172,128$214,273 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.
- Chouteau$1,125
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Chouteau, OK rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chouteau, Mayes County, Oklahoma
Chouteau is a town of 2,059 people in Mayes County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Mayes County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chouteau is a small town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes across the county run a little below the national picture, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow falls on some days each year, but summers turn hot, especially in August, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents of the town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. Across Mayes County, some of the largest workplaces are RAE, a maker of heating equipment, Pryor Schools, and GXO Logistics Worldwide, which runs warehousing. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has gained jobs over the past year, and most people drive a moderate distance to work.
Things to do. Close by, Spring Creek is a short drive away, as are Lake Hudson, a reservoir, and the Union Mission Site, an archaeological site that speaks to the area's early history. A longer drive brings you to the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, and to Fort Gibson, one of the older military posts in the region.
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- 839households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mayes County had 14,392 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 25°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pryor weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mayes County
- RAEHeating equipment, warm air, manufacturing688
- Pryor SchoolsSchool district463FTE
- GXO Logistics WorldwideGeneral warehousing and storage396
- American CastingsIron foundries340
- Cascades Tissue Group OklahomaPaper products made in paper mills320
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Xcaliber InternationalSmoking tobacco manufacturing278
- Berry GlobalPackaging, plastics, manufacturing270
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,096 people in all across the county; Chouteau has two of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chouteau’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Mayes County.
Chouteau home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chouteau$214,273
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Chouteau listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Chouteau22.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chouteau21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Chouteau address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chouteau — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.