Ringling, Oklahoma.
Typical home $73,020 (+10.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$213 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,954 +11%
- $66,066$73,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,190 +26%
- $57,830$73,020 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.
- Ringling$383
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Ringling, OK rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ringling, Jefferson County, Oklahoma
Ringling is a town of 869 people in Jefferson County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ringling is a small town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are well below what many homeowners elsewhere would expect. Incomes in the county run below the state's middle, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home, so most people travel to a job outside the house. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing local people. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include Waurika Schools, Jefferson County Hospital and Ringling Schools. The county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment has held steady compared with a year ago.
Things to do. For time on the water, Lake Nocona and Rock Creek Reservoir are both reservoirs, each a longer drive away. Waurika Lake, another reservoir, lies a longer drive away as well. Those who prefer moving water can head for the Little Wichita River, also a longer drive away.
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- 328households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 871 jobs in 2025, 9.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ringling 1N Mesonet weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Waurika SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Jefferson County HospitalCritical access hospital54FTE
- Ringling SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Ryan SchoolsSchool district50FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ringling’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 Jefferson County.
Ringling home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ringling$73,020
- 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 Ringling address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ringling — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.