Waurika, Oklahoma.
Typical home $89,239 (+13.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$328 (+234%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,337 +13%
- $78,902$89,239 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,549 +76%
- $50,690$89,239 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.
- Waurika$468
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 6 years.
Typical home values in Waurika, OK rose 13.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma
Waurika is a city of 1,837 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $45,882 a year and half less, against $48,668 across Jefferson County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waurika is a small city in southern Oklahoma, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. The population is on the older side, with a median age above the national level, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live in poverty than is typical, while homes are priced modestly. Winters are cool and short with very little snow, and summers get very hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Jefferson County, Waurika Schools and Jefferson County Hospital are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment in the county is unchanged from a year ago, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Waurika Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is the Wichita River. Lake Humphreys, another reservoir, is a longer drive for those who want to go farther afield.
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- 788households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 871 jobs in 2025, 9.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°. About 2 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waurika weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Waurika SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Jefferson County HospitalCritical access hospital54FTE
- Ringling SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Ryan SchoolsSchool district50FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waurika’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 Jefferson County.
Waurika home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waurika$89,239
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Waurika8
Zip codes with a Waurika address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waurika — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.