Vinita, Oklahoma.
Typical home $189,712 (+2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,502 +2%
- $185,210$189,712 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,342 +42%
- $133,370$189,712 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.
- Vinita$996
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Vinita, OK rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma
Vinita is a city of 5,193 people in Craig County. Half its households earn more than $47,025 a year and half less, against $51,922 across Craig County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Craig County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vinita is a small city in Craig County, Oklahoma, with a population that skews a little younger than older. Incomes run below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than is typical, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn hot, with only a little snow and a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Vinita Schools, Saint Francis Hospital Vinita and Home of Hope. Most people have a short trip to work, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year, with unemployment a little higher than a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Bernice State Park offers a protected area to get outdoors, and the Afton Station Packard Museum is a museum of classic cars. Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away and a draw for time on the water.
Report a mistake
- 2,053households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Craig County had 4,967 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 6 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spavinaw weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vinita
- Vinita SchoolsSchool district190FTE
- Saint Francis Hospital VinitaGeneral hospital112FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services79
- Atwoods 24Retail store37
- VinitaMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 141 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vinita’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 Craig County.
Vinita home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vinita$189,712
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vinita 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.
- Vinita24.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vinita93
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vinita20
Zip codes with a Vinita address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vinita — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.