Lindsay, Oklahoma.
Typical home $105,028 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$322 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,279 -1%
- $106,307$105,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,645 +47%
- $71,383$105,028 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.
- Lindsay$551
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Lindsay, OK fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lindsay, Garvin County, Oklahoma
Lindsay is a city of 2,864 people in Garvin County. Half its households earn more than $52,000 a year and half less, against $58,556 across Garvin County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Garvin County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lindsay is a small city in Garvin County, Oklahoma, with a population on the younger side of middle age. Incomes run below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than by renters. Typical home values are modest, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short, summers get very hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Garvin County, some of the largest workplaces are the Wynnewood refinery, Walmart and the Lindsay and Pauls Valley school districts. Unemployment has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. For time on the water, Fuqua Lake, Clear Creek Lake and Lake Dahlgren are reservoirs and lakes a longer drive away. History is close to hand at Fort Arbuckle, an old fort, also a longer drive away. Fort Arbuckle and the lakes are all a longer drive from town, so a day out here usually means planning a little ahead.
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- 1,176households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garvin County had 9,434 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lindsay West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garvin County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage800
- CVR Common Services, LLC Wynnewood RefineryPetroleum refineries319
- Coffeyville Resources Crude TransTrucking, specialized freight, local272
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters221
- Pauls Valley SchoolsSchool district212FTE
- Lindsay SchoolsSchool district149FTE
- Pauls Valley TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air134
- Lindsay Municipal Hospital AuthorityGeneral hospital129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,163 people in all across the county; Lindsay 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lindsay’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 Garvin County.
Lindsay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lindsay$105,028
- 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.
- Lindsay13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lindsay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lindsay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.