Hodgen, Oklahoma.
Typical home $178,403 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,372 +8%
- $165,030$178,403 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,608 +23%
- $144,795$178,403 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.
- Hodgen$936
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Hodgen, OK rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hodgen, Le Flore County, Oklahoma
Hodgen, in Le Flore County, had 62 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Le Flore County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hodgen is a small community in Le Flore County, in eastern Oklahoma. Winters are cool with freezing nights, and summers are hot, so the seasons are clearly marked. Residents live with the county's mix of open country and small towns, where neighbors often know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in local shops. Manufacturing and the building trades also provide work for people here. Jobs in these fields are close to home for many families.
Things to do. The Ouachita River is a longer drive away, while Lake Wister, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Lake Wister State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away and makes a good day trip.
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What people in Le Flore County 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, 8 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; Hodgen has none 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 stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hodgen’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.
Hodgen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hodgen$178,403
- 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.
- Hodgen15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hodgen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hodgen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hodgen
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74966 | Wister | 3,456 | — | $207,871 |
| 74939 | Hodgen | 1,289 | — | $184,592 |