Heavener, Oklahoma.
Typical home $122,384 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$378 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,663 +5%
- $116,721$122,384 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,280 +30%
- $94,104$122,384 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.
- Heavener$642
- 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 Heavener, OK rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heavener, Le Flore County, Oklahoma
Heavener is a city of 2,985 people in Le Flore County. Half its households earn more than $34,408 a year and half less, against $51,565 across Le Flore County; 33% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Le Flore County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heavener is a small city in Le Flore County, in the hills of eastern Oklahoma. Residents here are younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's, and a good many households live below the poverty line, while relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Le Flore County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Poteau Schools and Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is little changed from a year earlier. Most people drive a fair way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Heavener Runestone State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away, Lake Wister is a reservoir, and Lake Wister State Park is a protected area beside it. For a longer outing, Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area is another protected area, a longer drive away.
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- 1,042households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Le Flore County had 11,998 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wister 3S weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Le Flore County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- Robinson ConstructionHeavy civil road construction contractor290
- Poteau SchoolsSchool district263FTE
- Carl Albert State CollegeTwo-year college231
- Eastern Oklahoma Medical CenterCritical access hospital128FTE
- Heavener SchoolsSchool district124FTE
- Spiro SchoolsSchool district124FTE
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery114
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,393 people in all across the county; Heavener has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Heavener’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 Le Flore County.
Heavener home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heavener$122,384
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Heavener listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Heavener19.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Heavener21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Heavener address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heavener — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.