Gage, Oklahoma.
Typical home $88,786 (+0.4% in a year). Woodward, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$188 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $346 +0%
- $88,440$88,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $355 -0%
- $89,141$88,786 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.
- Gage$466
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gage, OK rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gage, Ellis County, Oklahoma
Gage is a town of 433 people in Ellis County. Unemployment in Ellis County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ellis County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gage is a very small town in Ellis County, in the open farm and ranch country of northwestern Oklahoma. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and household incomes across Ellis County are below the typical for the state's larger counties. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers run hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow come in modest amounts over the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, which suits the surrounding land. Others work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Ellis County, some of the largest workplaces are Newman Memorial Hospital, Shattuck Nursing Center and Shattuck Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and about the same as a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Most outings from Gage mean a drive. Boiling Springs State Park is a protected area and a longer drive away. Fort Supply is a historic fort, and Fort Supply Lake is a reservoir nearby, both a longer drive away. The Beaver River also runs through the region, and it too is a longer drive away.
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- 152households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
What people in Ellis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ellis County had 1,158 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gage Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ellis County
- Newman Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital86FTE
- Shattuck Nursing CenterNursing homes62
- Shattuck SchoolsSchool district60FTE
- Fargo SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Arnett SchoolsSchool district41FTE
- Sagebrush SOW Farm -EST30
- Select Nine Mult SOW & GDU -EST29
- Murphy-brown28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 149 people in all across the county; Gage 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gage’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 Ellis County and the Woodward, OK metro.
Gage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gage$88,786
- 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 Gage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.