Hennessey, Oklahoma.
Typical home $186,020 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,035 +1%
- $183,985$186,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,805 +16%
- $160,215$186,020 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.
- Hennessey$976
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Hennessey, OK rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hennessey, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
Hennessey is a town of 2,151 people in Kingfisher County. Half its households earn more than $70,181 a year and half less, against $71,975 across Kingfisher County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Kingfisher County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kingfisher County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hennessey is a small town in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, and its residents are younger than in many towns of its size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than the county's income level alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, shops, and professional and business services. Across Kingfisher County, some of the largest workplaces are Nortek Okarche, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative and Kingfisher Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. The better-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. Winter Camp Creek is a river, the Chisholm Trail Museum is a museum, and Gaslight Theatre is a theatre. Lake Elmer, a reservoir, is also within reach for a day out.
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- 870households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Kingfisher County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kingfisher County had 6,937 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 9 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hennessey Ese weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingfisher County
- Nortek OkarcheAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing690
- Pioneer Telephone CooperativeTelecommunications carriers, wired260
- Kingfisher SchoolsSchool district215FTE
- LuGreg TruckingOil and gas field services on a contract basis162
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters152
- Hennessey SchoolsSchool district145FTE
- Cashion SchoolsSchool district113FTE
- Mercy Hospital KingfisherCritical access hospital99FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,628 people in all across the county; Hennessey 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hennessey’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 Kingfisher County.
Hennessey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hennessey$186,020
- 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.
- Hennessey6
Zip codes with a Hennessey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hennessey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.