Pettit, Oklahoma.
Typical home $219,293 (+8.9% in a year). Tahlequah, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,841 +9%
- $201,452$219,293 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,154 +30%
- $169,139$219,293 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.
- Pettit$1,151
- 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 Pettit, OK rose 8.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pettit, Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Pettit, in Cherokee County, had 829 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $59,054 a year and half less, against $53,218 across Cherokee County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Cherokee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pettit is a small community in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, with fewer residents than most towns that carry a name on the map. Household incomes here run above the county's, and homes sit at a middling price for the area. Winters are cool with only a little snow, summers get hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and government close behind. Across Cherokee County, the largest workplaces include Cherokee Nation WW Hastings Hospital, Northeastern State University and Northeastern Health System. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown.
Things to do. A short drive away are Cherokee Landing State Park, a protected area, and Caney Creek and the Baron Fork of the Illinois River, both good for time by the water. For local history, the Cherokee Heritage Center and the Cherokee National History Museum are each a short drive away. Tenkiller State Park is a longer drive, for those who want a day out.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Cherokee County 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; Pettit 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pettit’s census tracts, 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 Cherokee County and the Tahlequah, OK metro.
Pettit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pettit$219,293
- 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.
- Pettit11
Zip codes with a Pettit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pettit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.