Eldon, Oklahoma.
Typical home $207,222 (+9.7% in a year). Tahlequah, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$669 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,334 +10%
- $188,888$207,222 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,263 +38%
- $149,959$207,222 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.
- Eldon$1,088
- 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 Eldon, OK rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eldon, Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Eldon, in Cherokee County, had 347 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eldon is a very small community in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, where neighbors are likely to know one another. The population leans a little older than the typical American town, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cool and short, with only a light dusting of snow in most years, while summers turn hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Eldon mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and government. The biggest workplaces across Cherokee County include Cherokee Nation WW Hastings Hospital, Northeastern State University and Northeastern Health System. Unemployment across the county has edged up compared with a year ago, though the county has also added jobs over the past year, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Cherokee Heritage Center and the Cherokee National History Museum are both museums that tell the story of Cherokee history and culture. The Baron Fork of the Illinois River is also a short drive off and suits an afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Natural Falls State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 18,652 jobs in 2025, 3.9% more 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Cherokee Nation WW Hastings HospitalGeneral hospital1,049FTE
- Northeastern State UniversityUniversity or college898
- Northeastern Health SystemGeneral hospital777FTE
- Tahlequah SchoolsSchool district479FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters408
- Greenleaf Nursery CompanyNursery with tree production299
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter134
- Lake Region Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,548 people in all across the county; Eldon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eldon’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 Cherokee County and the Tahlequah, OK metro.
Eldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eldon$207,222
- 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 Eldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eldon — 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.