Pocola, Oklahoma.
Typical home $182,234 (+3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$546 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,899 +4%
- $175,335$182,234 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,245 +32%
- $137,989$182,234 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.
- Pocola$957
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pocola, OK rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pocola, Le Flore County, Oklahoma
Pocola is a town of 4,255 people in Le Flore County. Half its households earn more than $50,545 a year and half less, against $51,565 across Le Flore County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pocola is a small town in Le Flore County, in eastern Oklahoma, close to the Arkansas line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit on the modest side. Incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with only a dusting of snow most years and plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Le Flore County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Robinson Construction and Poteau Schools. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and the daily drive to work is short, with few people working from home.
Things to do. The Ozark–St. Francis National Forest lies in or beside town, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. A short drive away are Spiro Mounds, an archaeological site, and Fort Smith National Historic Site, also a protected area. The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a short drive away too, and for a longer outing there is Lake Wister, a reservoir.
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- 1,810households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents 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 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Smith Regional Airport weather station, 8 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 across the county; Pocola has two of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Pocola’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 Le Flore County.
Pocola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pocola$182,234
- 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.
- Pocola19
Zip codes with a Pocola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pocola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.