Purcell, Oklahoma.
Typical home $223,383 (+0.6% in a year). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,270 +1%
- $222,113$223,383 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,331 +29%
- $173,052$223,383 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.
- Purcell$1,172
- 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 Purcell, OK rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Purcell, McClain County, Oklahoma
Purcell is a city of 6,651 people in McClain County. Half its households earn more than $63,457 a year and half less, against $84,552 across McClain County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in McClain County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Purcell is a small city in McClain County, in central Oklahoma. It is a younger town than you might expect, with residents who are on the whole younger than the national average, and household incomes that run well below the county's. More homes here are rented than across the county as a whole, though most are still lived in by their owners. Winters are cold but not severe, with the chill peaking in January, and summers turn hot by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in government. The largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Purcell Schools and Purcell Municipal Hospital. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is a short one for most people.
Things to do. Water is the closest draw: Lake Thunderbird is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Lake Thunderbird State Park, a protected area, sits beside it. For a museum outing, the Sam Noble Museum is also a longer drive away. Both make a fuller day trip than a quick errand.
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- 2,548households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McClain County had 12,590 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Purcell Southwest weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Purcell
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters258
- Purcell SchoolsSchool district190FTE
- Purcell Municipal HospitalGeneral hospital68FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 258 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Purcell’s 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 McClain County and the Oklahoma City, OK metro.
Purcell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Purcell$223,383
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Purcell 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.
- Purcell29.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Purcell58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Purcell15
Zip codes with a Purcell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Purcell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.