Paden, Oklahoma.
Typical home $211,842 (+10.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$716 (+181%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,800 +10%
- $192,042$211,842 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,154 +47%
- $143,688$211,842 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.
- Paden$1,112
- 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 Paden, OK rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paden, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma
Paden is a town of 419 people in Okfuskee County. Half its households earn more than $47,273 a year and half less, against $48,363 across Okfuskee County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Okfuskee County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Okfuskee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paden is a very small town in Okfuskee County, home to a small community of people. Most households own the home they live in, and typical incomes sit a little below the county's, with a fair share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, summers get hot, and the year brings only a light amount of snow alongside a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government and manufacturing also employing many. Across Okfuskee County, the largest workplaces include Creek Nation Community Hospital and Okemah Schools. Commutes tend to run fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Several reservoirs lie within reach, including Sportsman Lake and Wewoka Lake, each a longer drive away. Dripping Springs State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town. For a museum visit, Chandler Armory is a longer drive away as well.
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- 180households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Okfuskee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Okfuskee County had 2,565 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 5 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Okemah weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Okfuskee County
- Creek Nation Community HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals213
- Okemah SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Creek Nation Community HospitalCritical access hospital98FTE
- Weleetka SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- okemah care centerNursing homes53
- GreifBobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard40
- Mason SchoolsSchool district39FTE
- Paden SchoolsSchool district30FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 306 people in all across the county; Paden has one 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paden’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 Okfuskee County.
Paden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paden$211,842
- 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.
- Paden6
Zip codes with a Paden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.