Wapanucka, Oklahoma.
Typical home $155,731 (+13.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,859 +13%
- $137,872$155,731 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,010 +50%
- $103,721$155,731 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.
- Wapanucka$817
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Wapanucka, OK rose 13.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wapanucka, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Wapanucka is a town of 386 people in Johnston County. Half its households earn more than $35,417 a year and half less, against $52,688 across Johnston County. Unemployment in Johnston County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 11.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wapanucka is a very small town in Johnston County, Oklahoma, where residents are on the young side and household incomes run well below the county's. A typical home here is worth a good deal more than a year of a typical household's income. Winters are cold but not severe, summers get hot, and the rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Johnston County, the largest workplaces include Murray State College, Mercy Hospital Tishomingo and Wapanucka Schools. The usual trip to work is fairly long, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county has risen over the past year, and there are fewer jobs than there were a year earlier.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are Fort Washita and Fort McCulloch, both historic forts, each a longer drive away. Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife, is also a longer drive from town. Anyone who prefers water might head to Atoka Reservoir, another longer drive.
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- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Johnston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnston County had 3,038 jobs in 2025, 11.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coleman 4W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnston County
- Murray State CollegeTwo-year college298
- Tishomingo SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Mercy Hospital TishomingoGeneral medical and surgical hospitals76
- Mercy Hospital TishomingoCritical access hospital63FTE
- Wapanucka SchoolsSchool district40FTE
- Coleman SchoolsSchool district34FTE
- Milburn SchoolsSchool district33FTE
- Mill Creek SchoolsSchool district25FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 96 people in all across the county; Wapanucka 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Wapanucka’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 Johnston County.
Wapanucka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wapanucka$155,731
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wapanucka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wapanucka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.