Dickson, Oklahoma.
Typical home $251,644 (+7.1% in a year). Ardmore, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,589 +7%
- $235,055$251,644 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,766 +37%
- $183,878$251,644 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.
- Dickson$1,321
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Dickson, OK rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dickson, Carter County, Oklahoma
Dickson is a town of 1,331 people in Carter County. Half its households earn more than $81,250 a year and half less, against $60,723 across Carter County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Carter County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dickson is a small town in Carter County, and most homes in it are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values sit at a level that reflects that. Winters are cold but short-lived, summers get hot, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Carter County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Hospital Ardmore, Michelin and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The Black Theater of Ardmore is a theatre a short drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Murray is a lake and Turner Falls a waterfall, both a longer drive away. Chickasaw National Recreation Area, also a longer drive, is a protected area for walking and being by the water.
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- 492households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 23,466 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ardmore 3ENE Mesonet weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carter County
- ArdmoreGeneral warehousing and storage800
- Mercy Hospital ArdmoreGeneral hospital616FTE
- MichelinTires manufacturing574
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Ardmore SchoolsSchool district373FTE
- EJ - Ardmore FoundryFoundries, iron360
- Valero Ardmore RefineryAcid oils made in petroleum refineries273
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,947 people in all across the county; Dickson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Dickson’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 Carter County and the Ardmore, OK metro.
Dickson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dickson$251,644
- 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.
- Dickson6
Zip codes with a Dickson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dickson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.