Ralston, Oklahoma.
Typical home $104,753 (-4.4% in a year). Tulsa, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$192 (+54%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,803 -4%
- $109,556$104,753 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,701 -12%
- $119,454$104,753 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.
- Ralston$550
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ralston, OK fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ralston, Osage County, Oklahoma
Ralston is a town of 266 people in Osage County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Osage County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ralston is a very small Oklahoma town in Osage County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are low, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers run hot, with only a little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, shops, and professional and business services. Across Osage County, some of the larger workplaces are OSU Medical Center and Trust, Wedlake Fabricating and Walmart. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Ralston Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the nearest place for an evening out, and Black Bear Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is a protected area a longer drive away, and Kaw Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 113households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osage County had 8,027 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 7 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ralston weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osage County
- OSU Medical Center and TrustGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,208
- Wedlake FabricatingMotor generator sets manufacturing266
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Phillips 66 Research CenterChemical research and development laboratories or services156
- Family & Children's ServicesCrisis care center153
- Pawhuska SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Fairfax Community HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Pawhuska HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,449 people in all across the county; Ralston has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ralston’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 Osage County and the Tulsa, OK metro.
Ralston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ralston$104,753
- 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.
Zip codes with a Ralston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ralston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.