Hugo, Oklahoma.
Typical home $124,087 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,001 +2%
- $122,086$124,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,932 +36%
- $91,155$124,087 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.
- Hugo$651
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Hugo, OK rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Hugo is a city of 5,166 people in Choctaw County. Half its households earn more than $33,917 a year and half less, against $44,081 across Choctaw County; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Choctaw County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hugo is a small city in Choctaw County, with a population on the younger side and incomes well below the county's. Far more people here rent than across most of the country, and homes cost less than in many parts of it. Winters are mild but can turn freezing at night, and summers get very hot.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Hugo are Hugo Schools, Choctaw Memorial Hospital and LIFT Community Action Agency. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the trip to work is short for most people.
Things to do. Hugo Lake, a reservoir, and Muddy Boggy Creek, a river, are both a short drive away and suit fishing, boating or a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Raymond Gary State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and the Kiamichi River is another river worth the trip.
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- 2,232households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Choctaw County had 5,372 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hugo weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hugo
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies456
- LIFT Community Action AgencyPreschool centers262
- Hugo SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Choctaw Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital94FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 853 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Hugo’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 Choctaw County.
Hugo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hugo$124,087
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hugo listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Hugo15.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hugo36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hugo6
Zip codes with a Hugo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hugo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.