Porter, Oklahoma.
Typical home $302,827 (+5.3% in a year). Tulsa, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$852 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,356 +5%
- $287,472$302,827 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,295 +23%
- $246,533$302,827 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.
- Porter$1,589
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Porter, OK rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Porter, Wagoner County, Oklahoma
Porter is a town of 561 people in Wagoner County. Half its households earn more than $49,444 a year and half less, against $81,207 across Wagoner County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Wagoner County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wagoner 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Porter is a very small town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, with far fewer people than most places on this site. Household incomes are well below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than you might expect from the county as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, though not severe, and summers get hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Wagoner County, some of the largest workplaces are Coweta Schools, Walmart and Blue Bell Creameries. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Honor Heights Park, a botanical garden, and the Five Civilized Tribes Museum are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Sequoyah State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and Fort Gibson, a historic fort, is also a longer drive. The Three Rivers Museum is another museum a longer drive away.
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- 246households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Wagoner County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wagoner County had 11,632 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wagoner weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wagoner County
- Coweta SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters364
- Hubbell Gas Utility SolutionsManifolds, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe320
- Blue Bell CreameriesIce cream manufacturing287
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- Wagoner SchoolsSchool district264FTE
- Zeeco Global Technology CenterCeramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing253
- Timber Wolf ExcavatingFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors245
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,224 people in all across the county; Porter has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Porter’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 Wagoner County and the Tulsa, OK metro.
Porter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Porter$302,827
- 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.
- Porter9
Zip codes with a Porter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Porter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.