Washington, Oklahoma.
Typical home $283,546 (+2.2% in a year). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$804 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,193 +2%
- $277,353$283,546 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,015 +28%
- $221,531$283,546 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.
- Washington$1,488
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Washington, OK rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, McClain County, Oklahoma
Washington is a town of 673 people in McClain County. Half its households earn more than $90,321 a year and half less, against $84,552 across McClain County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in McClain County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McClain County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a very small town in McClain County, Oklahoma, where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a rural area. Winters are cold but not severe, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and professional and business services. Across McClain County, some of the largest workplaces are Newcastle Schools, Blanchard Schools and Walmart, along with oil and gas field services firms such as Thru Tubing Solutions. Commutes are on the long side, and a share of people work from home, so many residents look to jobs outside the town itself.
Things to do. The Sam Noble Museum, a natural history museum, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Thunderbird, a reservoir with a state park beside it, good for time on the water. The Oklahoma City National Memorial, also a longer drive away, is one of the best known places to visit in the region.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in McClain County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McClain County had 12,590 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington 6SSW Mesonet weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McClain County
- Thru Tubing SolutionsServicing oil and gas wells on a contract basis712
- Cudd Pressure ControlOil and gas field services on a contract basis554
- Newcastle SchoolsSchool district328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters258
- Blanchard SchoolsSchool district244FTE
- Purcell SchoolsSchool district190FTE
- H & H Plumbing & Utilities165
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,332 people in all across the county; Washington has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’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 McClain County and the Oklahoma City, OK metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$283,546
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Washington13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Washington5
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.