Fairfax, Oklahoma.
Typical home $68,933 (+17.2% in a year). Tulsa, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$205 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,101 +17%
- $58,832$68,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,660 +34%
- $51,273$68,933 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.
- Fairfax$362
- 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 Fairfax, OK rose 17.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma
Fairfax is a town of 1,136 people in Osage County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Osage County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairfax is a small town in Osage County, Oklahoma, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Poverty is more common here than in most places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, though snow is light over a year. Summers run hot, and rain and melted snow are fairly steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, government and shops. Across Osage County, some of the largest workplaces are OSU Medical Center and Trust, Wedlake Fabricating and Walmart. The county has been adding jobs, though unemployment there has edged up over the past year. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Ralston Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, a protected area of open grassland, and to Kaw Lake, a reservoir. The Osage Nation Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 442households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osage County had 8,027 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 7 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ralston weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osage County
- OSU Medical Center and TrustGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,208
- Wedlake FabricatingMotor generator sets manufacturing266
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Phillips 66 Research CenterChemical research and development laboratories or services156
- Family & Children's ServicesCrisis care center153
- Pawhuska SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Fairfax Community HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Pawhuska HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,449 people in all across the county; Fairfax has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairfax’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 Osage County and the Tulsa, OK metro.
Fairfax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairfax$68,933
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Fairfax8
Zip codes with a Fairfax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairfax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.