Colony, Oklahoma.
Typical home $182,264 (+7.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,429 +7%
- $169,835$182,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,894 +25%
- $146,369$182,264 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.
- Colony$957
- 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 Colony, OK rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colony, Washita County, Oklahoma
Colony is a town of 112 people in Washita County. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colony is a very small town in Washita County, in western Oklahoma, and most of its residents are older, with many well into later life. The town's homes are generally modest in value, and most people in Colony know one another. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work in a few main areas: schools, hospitals and care work, farming, forestry and mining, local shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Only a small share of people work from home, so most jobs take place away from the house. Many of the town's working lives are tied to the land or to services that serve the wider county.
Things to do. Stafford Air & Space Museum, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the more notable places to visit near Colony. Crowder Lake University Park, a reservoir a short drive away, is the closest option for an outing on the water. Fort Cobb State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a quieter day outdoors.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 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 49° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 6 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weatherford 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; Colony has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Colony’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.
Colony home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colony$182,264
- 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 Colony address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colony — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.