Sulphur, Oklahoma.
Typical home $173,194 (-5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$482 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,311 -5%
- $182,504$173,194 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,098 +24%
- $140,096$173,194 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.
- Sulphur$909
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Sulphur, OK fell 5.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma
Sulphur is a city of 5,065 people in Murray County. Half its households earn more than $66,957 a year and half less, against $66,322 across Murray County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Murray County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sulphur is a small city in Murray County, Oklahoma, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes are close to the county's, and the typical home value sits in the middle range. The town skews a little older, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cold at times, summers are hot, and snow is rare, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Arbuckle Memorial Hospital and Sulphur Schools. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Across Murray County, jobs grew slightly last year, though unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Chickasaw National Recreation Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town. Lake of the Arbuckles, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Turner Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away, as is Fort Arbuckle, a fort.
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- 1,676households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Murray County had 4,898 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chickasaw Nra weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sulphur
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters178
- Arbuckle Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital144FTE
- Sulphur SchoolsSchool district96FTE
- Chickasaw TelephoneTelecommunications resellers83
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sulphur’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 Murray County.
Sulphur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sulphur$173,194
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sulphur 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.
- Sulphur22.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sulphur62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sulphur11
Zip codes with a Sulphur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sulphur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.