Marlow, Oklahoma.
Typical home $123,364 (-1.2% in a year). Duncan, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,516 -1%
- $124,880$123,364 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,492 +26%
- $97,872$123,364 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.
- Marlow$648
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Marlow, OK fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
Marlow is a city of 4,385 people in Stephens County. Half its households earn more than $56,655 a year and half less, against $61,620 across Stephens County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Stephens County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marlow is a small city in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Residents are younger than in many American communities, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also employing a good number. Marlow Schools, BlueArc Innovations, which makes gas well machinery and equipment, and Marlow Nursing & Rehab are among the largest workplaces in town. Jobs across Stephens County have been slipping, and unemployment there is higher than a year ago. The typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Clear Creek Lake and Lake Humphreys are reservoirs a short drive away, good for time on the water. Farther afield, the Museum of the Great Plains is a longer drive away and offers a look at the region's history. Lake Ellsworth is another longer drive for anyone wanting a different stretch of shoreline.
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- 1,676households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stephens County had 14,725 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Duncan weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marlow
- Marlow SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- BlueArc InnovationsGas well machinery and equipment manufacturing68
- Marlow Nursing & RehabSkilled nursing facilities67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 135 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marlow’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Stephens County and the Duncan, OK metro.
Marlow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marlow$123,364
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Marlow 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.
- Marlow22.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marlow31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marlow7
Zip codes with a Marlow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marlow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.