Dover, Oklahoma.
Typical home $224,049 (-2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,816 -3%
- $229,865$224,049 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,571 +13%
- $197,478$224,049 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.
- Dover$1,176
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Dover, OK fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
Dover is a town of 400 people in Kingfisher County. Unemployment in Kingfisher County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kingfisher County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a very small town in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, where neighbors tend to know one another and daily life moves at an unhurried pace. Typical home values here are modest, and a share of residents live below the poverty line that is notable. A four-year degree is uncommon among adults, and few people work from home. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year for the region.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Kingfisher County, some of the largest workplaces are Nortek Okarche, which makes air-conditioning equipment, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, and Kingfisher Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Winter Camp Creek offers river scenery, and Lake Elmer is a reservoir for time by the water. The Chisholm Trail Museum, also a short drive off, tells the story of the cattle-drive era that shaped this part of Oklahoma. For a longer outing, Fort Reno is a historic fort and Roman Nose State Park is a protected area for walking and being outdoors.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Kingfisher County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kingfisher County had 6,937 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 5 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingfisher weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingfisher County
- Nortek OkarcheAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing690
- Pioneer Telephone CooperativeTelecommunications carriers, wired260
- Kingfisher SchoolsSchool district215FTE
- LuGreg TruckingOil and gas field services on a contract basis162
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters152
- Hennessey SchoolsSchool district145FTE
- Cashion SchoolsSchool district113FTE
- Mercy Hospital KingfisherCritical access hospital99FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,628 people in all across the county; Dover has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Dover’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 Kingfisher County.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$224,049
- 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 Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.