Cookson, Oklahoma.
Typical home $244,073 (+8.1% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$764 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,326 +8%
- $225,747$244,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,960 +33%
- $183,114$244,073 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.
- Cookson$1,281
- 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 Cookson, OK rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cookson, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Cookson, in Sequoyah County, had 826 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Sequoyah County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sequoyah County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cookson is a very small community, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Fewer households live below the poverty line than you might expect, though incomes across Sequoyah County sit below the typical American household's. The winters are mild and rarely snowy, and the summers run hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Sequoyah County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Sallisaw Schools and Muldrow Schools. The commute to work is a long one, and unemployment in the county has edged up from a year earlier.
Things to do. Cherokee Landing State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive brings you to Tenkiller Ferry Lake, a reservoir, and to Caney Creek, a river. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the Cherokee Heritage Center, a museum.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
What people in Sequoyah County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sequoyah County had 9,459 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer 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 July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tahlequah weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sequoyah County
- Sallisaw - Elara CaringHome health care agencies582
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters266
- Sallisaw SchoolsSchool district261FTE
- Muldrow SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- ANAChicken egg production171
- JRT TruckingGeneral freight trucking, local151
- Sequoyah EnterprisesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability148
- Sequoyah County City of Sallisaw HOSGeneral hospital138FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,881 people in all across the county; Cookson has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cookson’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 Sequoyah County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Cookson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cookson$244,073
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Cookson listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Cookson20.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cookson36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cookson6
Zip codes with a Cookson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cookson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.