Watts, Oklahoma.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$627 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
Living in Watts, Adair County, Oklahoma
Watts is a town of 227 people in Adair County. Unemployment in Adair County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adair County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Watts is a very small town in Adair County, Oklahoma, in the Ozark foothills near the Arkansas line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and across the county household incomes are modest. Winters are cold, with January highs near the freezing mark and lows well below it, while July days turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Adair County, the largest workplaces include ABB Motors & Mechanical, Stilwell Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Natural Falls State Park, a protected area, and Siloam Springs City Park are both a short drive away, as is Little Flint Creek, a river good for a walk along its banks. A longer drive leads to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
What people in Adair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adair County had 4,294 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kansas Northeast weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adair County
- Schwan's Shared ServicesPl526
- ABB Motors & MechanicalRotors manufacturing272
- Stilwell SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters190
- Westville SchoolsSchool district161FTE
- Facet Filtration Stilwell PlantFilters, industrial and general line, manufacturing123
- Maryetta SchoolsSchool district120FTE
- Adair County Health CenterGeneral hospital107FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,369 people in all across the county; Watts 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Watts’ 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 Adair County.
Watts home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Watts8
Zip codes with a Watts address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Watts — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.