Peggs, Oklahoma.
Typical home $224,071 (+4.9% in a year). Tahlequah, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,418 +5%
- $213,653$224,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,085 +27%
- $176,986$224,071 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.
- Peggs$1,176
- 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 Peggs, OK rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Peggs, in Cherokee County, had 789 people in the 2020 census. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peggs is a small community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share than is usual across the country. Typical home values sit at a moderate level, and household incomes in Cherokee County are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical trip to work takes a fair amount of time. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers get hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Peggs work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Cherokee County, the largest workplaces include Cherokee Nation WW Hastings Hospital, Northeastern State University and Northeastern Health System. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best known nearby places are the Neosho River and the Verdigris River, both a longer drive away. Fort Gibson, a historic fort, and Natural Falls State Park, a protected area, are also a longer drive away. Plan on a longer trip for any of them.
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- 282households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 18,652 jobs in 2025, 3.9% 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 July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tahlequah weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Cherokee Nation WW Hastings HospitalGeneral hospital1,049FTE
- Northeastern State UniversityUniversity or college898
- Northeastern Health SystemGeneral hospital777FTE
- Tahlequah SchoolsSchool district479FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters408
- Greenleaf Nursery CompanyNursery with tree production299
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter134
- Lake Region Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,548 people in all across the county; Peggs has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peggs’ 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 Cherokee County and the Tahlequah, OK metro.
Peggs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peggs$224,071
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Peggs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peggs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.