Wright City, Oklahoma.
Typical home $119,535 (+12.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$314 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,529 +13%
- $106,007$119,535 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,112 +5%
- $113,424$119,535 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.
- Wright City$627
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in Wright City, OK rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wright City, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Wright City is a town of 616 people in McCurtain County. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in McCurtain County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wright City is a small town in McCurtain County, in the southeast corner of Oklahoma. Its residents are younger than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical nationwide. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across McCurtain County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Poultry, International Paper Company and Walmart. The typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Glover River, a river a short drive away, is the closest of the nearby waters. A longer drive brings you to Beavers Bend Resort Park, a park, and to Broken Bow Lake, a reservoir. The Kiamichi River, another river a longer drive away, is also within reach for a day out.
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- 165households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McCurtain County had 12,445 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Idabel weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McCurtain County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,240
- International Paper CompanyPulp and paper combined manufacturing419
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Broken BOW SchoolsSchool district196FTE
- Mccurtain Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital186FTE
- Idabel SchoolsSchool district185FTE
- Huber Engineered WoodsOriented strandboard manufacturing170
- Pan Pacific ProductsMdf manufacturing134
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,186 people in all across the county; Wright City has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wright City’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 McCurtain County.
Wright City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wright City$119,535
- 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.
- Wright City8
Zip codes with a Wright City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wright City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.