Sentinel, Oklahoma.
Typical home $92,210 (+16.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,830 +16%
- $79,379$92,210 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,875 +64%
- $56,335$92,210 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.
- Sentinel$484
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Sentinel, OK rose 16.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sentinel, Washita County, Oklahoma
Sentinel is a town of 763 people in Washita County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Washita County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washita County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sentinel is a very small town in western Oklahoma, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with moderate rainfall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in shops and in transport and warehousing. Across Washita County, the largest workplaces include Western Technology Center, Cordell Schools and Cordell Memorial Hospital. Few people work from home, and unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Hobart, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Foss State Park, a protected area built around a reservoir, and Quartz Mountain Nature Park, another protected area, are both a longer drive away. The Washita River, also a longer drive, is another place for time outdoors.
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- 17%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Washita County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washita County had 1,936 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton Sherman Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washita County
- Western Technology CenterCareer school155
- Cordell SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- Burns Flat-dill City SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- Canute SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Sentinel SchoolsSchool district53FTE
- Cordell Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
- Bird EquipmentFermention tanks, heavy gauge metal tanks, manufacturing24
- Premium Aerospace Center OklahomaAirport passenger screening security services20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44 people in all across the county; Sentinel has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sentinel’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 Washita County.
Sentinel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sentinel$92,210
- 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.
- Sentinel6
Zip codes with a Sentinel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sentinel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.