Glencoe, Oklahoma.
Typical home $243,333 (+0.8% in a year). Stillwater, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$742 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,031 +1%
- $241,301$243,333 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,405 +30%
- $186,928$243,333 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.
- Glencoe$1,277
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Glencoe, OK rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glencoe, Payne County, Oklahoma
Glencoe is a town of 499 people in Payne County. Unemployment in Payne County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Payne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glencoe is a very small town in Payne County, Oklahoma, where most people know one another by sight. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and homes are valued at a level that many buyers in larger cities would find within reach. Winters are cold but short, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Across Payne County, the largest workplaces are Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Medical Center and Stillwater Schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and jobs across the county have grown only slightly over the past year, while unemployment has edged up a little.
Things to do. Lone Chimney Lake, a reservoir, and Morrison Arboretum, a botanical garden, are both a short drive away, as is Boomer Lake. Farther afield, Boone Pickens Stadium is a longer drive away for those who follow college sports. The Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is also a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
What people in Payne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Payne County had 35,314 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stillwater Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Payne County
- Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college5,649
- Stillwater Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,924FTE
- Stillwater SchoolsSchool district861FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters268
- Cushing SchoolsSchool district249FTE
- Black & VeatchIndustrial engineering services234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,569 people in all across the county; Glencoe has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glencoe’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 Payne County and the Stillwater, OK metro.
Glencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glencoe$243,333
- 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.
- Glencoe14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Glencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.