Dewey, Oklahoma.
Typical home $147,830 (+9.2% in a year). Bartlesville, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$441 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,498 +9%
- $135,332$147,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,131 +35%
- $109,699$147,830 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.
- Dewey$776
- 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 Dewey, OK rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dewey, Washington County, Oklahoma
Dewey is a city of 3,372 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $42,695 a year and half less, against $60,162 across Washington County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dewey is a small city in Washington County, Oklahoma, with a population that makes it a close-knit place where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical, while homes are priced modestly. Winters are cold but short, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Bartlesville Schools, Jane Phillips Medical Center and ABB. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has barely grown. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Jo Allyn Lowe Park, a botanical garden, is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. For a longer drive, Woolaroc is a protected area, and Osage Hills State Park offers more open country to walk and explore. Oologah Lake is a lake that is also a longer drive away, for time on the water.
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- 1,383households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 19,039 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bartlesville weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Phillips 66 Downtown BartlesvilleBusiness management services897
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage830
- Bartlesville SchoolsSchool district748FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters446
- Jane Phillips Medical CenterGeneral hospital381FTE
- ABBViscosimeters, industrial process-type, manufacturing365
- Schlumberger TechnologyOil and gas field services on a contract basis283
- Oklahoma Wesleyan UniversityUniversity or college204
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,664 people in all across the county; Dewey has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Dewey’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 Washington County and the Bartlesville, OK metro.
Dewey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dewey$147,830
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dewey 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dewey17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dewey6
Zip codes with a Dewey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dewey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Dewey
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74029 | Dewey | 5,331 | — | $145,845 |
| 74083 | Wann | 791 | — | $264,973 |