Vian, Oklahoma.
Typical home $198,327 (+5.3% in a year). Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$632 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,937 +5%
- $188,391$198,327 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,510 +38%
- $143,817$198,327 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.
- Vian$1,041
- 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 Vian, OK rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vian, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Vian is a town of 1,374 people in Sequoyah County. Half its households earn more than $41,250 a year and half less, against $51,093 across Sequoyah County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vian is a small town in Sequoyah County, in eastern Oklahoma, with a younger population than many small towns. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than most places would expect. More homes are rented than owned, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers hot, with only a dusting of snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with retail, transport and warehousing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Sequoyah County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Sallisaw Schools and Muldrow Schools. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and few work from home. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly from the year before, and unemployment has edged up.
Things to do. The Canadian River is a short drive away, as are Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Tenkiller State Park. Brushy Creek Reservoir and Brushy Lake State Park are also close by. For a longer outing, Spiro Mounds, an archaeological site, is farther afield.
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- 473households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%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 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sallisaw Northwest 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; Vian has one 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vian’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 Sequoyah County and the Fort Smith, AR-OK metro.
Vian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vian$198,327
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vian 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.
- Vian26.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vian26
Zip codes with a Vian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.