Roland, Oklahoma.
Typical home $189,065 (+3.1% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$573 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,755 +3%
- $183,310$189,065 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,960 +34%
- $141,105$189,065 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.
- Roland$992
- 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 Roland, OK rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roland, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Roland is a town of 3,316 people in Sequoyah County. Half its households earn more than $51,754 a year and half less, against $51,093 across Sequoyah County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Sequoyah County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roland is a small Oklahoma town, with a younger population than much of the country. Household incomes sit close to the county's, and somewhat more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cool and short, summers are hot, and snow is rare, while rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Sequoyah County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Sallisaw Schools and Muldrow Schools. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, very few work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away are Spiro Mounds, an archaeological site, and Fort Smith National Historic Site, a protected area with a long history on the frontier. Ozark–St. Francis National Forest is also a short drive off, a protected area of woods for walking and getting outdoors. For a longer outing, the Canadian River is a longer drive away.
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- 1,274households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sequoyah County had 9,459 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sequoyah County
- Sallisaw - Elara CaringHome health care agencies582
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters266
- Sallisaw SchoolsSchool district261FTE
- Muldrow SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- ANAChicken egg production171
- JRT TruckingGeneral freight trucking, local151
- Sequoyah EnterprisesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability148
- Sequoyah County City of Sallisaw HOSGeneral hospital138FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,881 people in all across the county; Roland 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Sequoyah County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Roland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roland$189,065
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Roland 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.
- Roland19.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Roland44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Roland6
Zip codes with a Roland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.