Springer, Oklahoma.
Typical home $291,006 (+2.3% in a year). Ardmore, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$926 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,537 +2%
- $284,469$291,006 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,963 +31%
- $222,043$291,006 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.
- Springer$1,527
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Springer, OK rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springer, Carter County, Oklahoma
Springer is a town of 685 people in Carter County. Half its households earn more than $58,625 a year and half less, against $60,723 across Carter County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Carter County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springer is a very small town in Carter County, Oklahoma, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Carter County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Hospital Ardmore, Michelin and Ardmore Schools. Many people drive a fair way to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Jean Neustadt, a reservoir, is in or beside town, and Rock Creek Reservoir is a short drive away. Turner Falls, a waterfall, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 293households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 23,466 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ardmore 7WNW Mesonet weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carter County
- ArdmoreGeneral warehousing and storage800
- Mercy Hospital ArdmoreGeneral hospital616FTE
- MichelinTires manufacturing574
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Ardmore SchoolsSchool district373FTE
- EJ - Ardmore FoundryFoundries, iron360
- Valero Ardmore RefineryAcid oils made in petroleum refineries273
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,947 people in all across the county; Springer has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Springer’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 Carter County and the Ardmore, OK metro.
Springer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springer$291,006
- 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.
Zip codes with a Springer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.