Sawyer, Oklahoma.
Typical home $219,300 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,474 +4%
- $210,826$219,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,080 +39%
- $158,219$219,300 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.
- Sawyer$1,151
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Sawyer, OK rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sawyer, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Sawyer is a town of 340 people in Choctaw County. Half its households earn more than $67,188 a year and half less, against $44,081 across Choctaw County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Choctaw County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sawyer is a very small town in Choctaw County, in southeastern Oklahoma, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild and brief, with cool days and nights that dip to freezing, while summers get very hot by August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in the building trades, restaurants and hotels, or transport and warehouses. Across Choctaw County, some of the largest workplaces are Hugo Schools, Choctaw Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, which fits a town with little employment of its own. The county has seen jobs slip slightly over the past year, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Hugo Lake, a reservoir, and Raymond Gary State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away, as is the Kiamichi River. Fort Towson, a historic fort, is also a short drive away and makes a good outing for anyone interested in the region's past.
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- 139households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Choctaw County had 5,372 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hugo weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Choctaw County
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies456
- LIFT Community Action AgencyPreschool centers262
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters188
- Hugo SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Choctaw Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital94FTE
- Western Farmers Electric CooperativeElectric power generation, fossil fuel68
- Soper SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Fort Towson SchoolsSchool district50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,109 people in all across the county; Sawyer 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sawyer’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 Choctaw County.
Sawyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sawyer$219,300
- 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.
- Sawyer7
Zip codes with a Sawyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sawyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.