Perkins, Oklahoma.
Typical home $220,711 (+5.0% in a year). Stillwater, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,488 +5%
- $210,224$220,711 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,144 +29%
- $171,568$220,711 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.
- Perkins$1,158
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Perkins, OK rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma
Perkins is a city of 3,205 people in Payne County. Half its households earn more than $35,456 a year and half less, against $49,809 across Payne County. Unemployment in Payne County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Payne County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perkins is a small city in Payne County, Oklahoma, where incomes run below the county's and the typical home is valued at a modest sum for a place within reach of a university town. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the larger towns nearby. Winters are cold in January, with nights that dip below freezing, and summers turn hot by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Payne County, the largest workplaces include Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Medical Center and Stillwater Schools. Job numbers across the county have barely moved over the past year, and unemployment has edged up a little from a year earlier.
Things to do. The closest well-known draws are a longer drive away. Boone Pickens Stadium is a stadium for college football, and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum devoted to the sport. The Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is a botanical garden, a quieter option for a day out.
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- 1,353households
- 21%of adults have a degree
What people in Payne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Payne County had 35,314 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perkins 2NNW Mesonet weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Payne County
- Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college5,649
- Stillwater Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,924FTE
- Stillwater SchoolsSchool district861FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters268
- Cushing SchoolsSchool district249FTE
- Black & VeatchIndustrial engineering services234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,569 people in all across the county; Perkins has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perkins’ 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 Payne County and the Stillwater, OK metro.
Perkins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perkins$220,711
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Perkins 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.
- Perkins20.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perkins29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perkins8
Zip codes with a Perkins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perkins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.