Wellston, Oklahoma.
Typical home $112,586 (-7.5% in a year). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$292 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,176 -8%
- $121,762$112,586 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,718 +17%
- $95,868$112,586 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.
- Wellston$591
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Wellston, OK fell 7.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellston, Lincoln County, Oklahoma
Wellston is a town of 679 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $60,137 a year and half less, against $62,216 across Lincoln County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellston is a very small town in Lincoln County, where most homes are lived in by their owners, more so than in many places. Typical home values are modest, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work is long, which fits a small town where many people drive elsewhere for their jobs. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in government. Unemployment across Lincoln County is slightly higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Hiland Dairy, Walmart and Chandler Schools.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Bellcow Lake, a reservoir a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Oklahoma City, where the Oklahoma City National Memorial is a museum, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is a zoo, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is another museum.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 7,480 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chandler weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- McKee Utility ContractorsSewer main, pipe and connection, construction300
- Hiland DairyMilk, fluid, manufacturing242
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Chandler SchoolsSchool district152FTE
- Stroud SchoolsSchool district130FTE
- Stroud Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital126FTE
- Prague SchoolsSchool district114FTE
- Patriot EnvironmentalExcavation contractors101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,046 people in all across the county; Wellston 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellston’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 Lincoln County and the Oklahoma City, OK metro.
Wellston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellston$112,586
- 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.
- Wellston9
Zip codes with a Wellston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.