Muse, Oklahoma.
Typical home $187,087 (+14.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$672 (+217%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,416 +14%
- $163,671$187,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,224 +56%
- $119,863$187,087 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.
- Muse$982
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Muse, OK rose 14.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Muse, Le Flore County, Oklahoma
The Census does not count Muse on its own, so the figures here are Le Flore County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,565 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Muse is a small town in Le Flore County in eastern Oklahoma, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is in middle age. Winters are cold and summers are hot, and the town sits within the rolling hills of the Ouachita region.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Le Flore County, jobs grew a little over the past year and unemployment is slightly higher than it was a year before, while relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. The Ouachita River lies a longer drive away, and Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive off. Kerr Arboretum and Botanical Area, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away, offering a quiet place to walk among trees and plants.
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- 17,997households
- 38.7median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
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 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithville weather station, 17 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. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Le Flore County, 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 Le Flore County.
Muse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Muse$187,087
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Muse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Muse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.