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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-ARDMORE-OK · Ardmore, OK 24,757 pop · income 24th pct · 16 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Ardmore
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ardmore on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Zanesville · lowest
39,085
Zanesville · lowest
39,085 median HH income
28.5% of the leader · rank #1
Ardmore · this city
52,954
Ardmore · this city
52,954 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #2
Clay Springs · near
52,955
Clay Springs · near
52,955 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #3
Mapleton · near
52,955
Mapleton · near
52,955 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #4
Fayette City · near
52,955
Fayette City · near
52,955 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #5
Pelahatchie · near
52,957
Pelahatchie · near
52,957 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Pecan Grove · highest
137,275
Pecan Grove · highest
137,275 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Ardmore on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 24,757.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Ardmore - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Ardmore places in the 24th percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
24th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
6th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Ardmore, OK
Ardmore is a small city in Oklahoma, home to 24,757 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Ardmore brings in $52,954 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.2%. Typical homes in Ardmore are valued around $158,800, and the median resident age is 36.7 years. About 22.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 55 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 83% from five years earlier. Ardmore's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 4247.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 64.5°F with 38.0 inches of precipitation per year and 2.7 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Oklahoma run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Oklahoma scores 87.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $995 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $205 across Oklahoma, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 55.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Ardmore's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from within-city variation to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ardmore, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 16 Census tracts reveal inside Ardmore?
PlainCities matches 16 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What does the journey to work look like in Ardmore?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.5°F, with 38.0 inches of precipitation and 2.7 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Oklahoma is 55.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Ardmore?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Yukon (24,802 residents, $76,408 income); Ponca City (24,377 residents, $55,270 income); Jenks (26,519 residents, $104,970 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sandusky, OH (24,748 residents); Big Spring, TX (24,769 residents); Fort Dodge, IA (24,788 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Ardmore?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$158,800
Household income
$52,954
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +250 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 55 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
24,706
2025 estimate
24,956
Period change
+1.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Ardmore?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4247.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 86% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
4247.4
Violent rate
1141.2
Property rate
3106.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 14 public schools within the city match. 22.2% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
12.2%
Bachelor's degree+
22.2%
Matched public schools
14
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
87.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$52,954
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
1,141 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Ardmore profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.2%
Poverty rate: 31/100 (F) · 12.2%
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $52,954
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,141 /100k
Where Ardmore sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Ardmore's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Ardmore highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Ardmore, OK (this city): home $158,800, crime 4,247/100k
Sandusky, OH : home $104,800, crime 2,977/100k
Big Spring, TX : home $138,800, crime 3,548/100k
Fort Dodge, IA : home $128,900, crime 4,257/100k
Zanesville, OH : home $106,900, crime 3,174/100k
Centerville, OH : home $262,300, crime 1,046/100k
Yukon, OK : home $185,800, crime 1,355/100k
Ponca City, OK : home $127,500, crime 3,080/100k
Jenks, OK : home $285,600, crime 1,304/100k
Duncan, OK : home $125,800, crime 2,425/100k
Sapulpa, OK : home $158,300, crime 1,578/100k
Del City, OK : home $112,800, crime 3,674/100k
How does Ardmore compare to other US cities?
Here's how Ardmore stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety6% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Oklahoma alone, Ardmore ranks #196 of 203 Oklahoma cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Ardmore against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Oklahoma only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Oklahoma-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Ardmore near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ardmore ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ardmore only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#314 of 639
51st percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#148 of 628
76th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#352 of 671
47th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#154 of 671
76th percentile in Oklahoma
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Oklahoma only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
24th percentile nationally for median household income · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Ardmore's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Ardmore's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Ardmore's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Ardmore's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,686 of 15,516
More affordable than 57% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#899 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Ardmore sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,686 of 15,516 and #899 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$52,954Ardmore, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ardmore, OK median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Ardmore, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,757
Median Income
$52,954
Median Home Value
$158,800
Median Age
36.7
Poverty Rate
12.2%
Labor force participation
56.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4247.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1141.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3106.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
64.5°F
Annual Precipitation
38.0"
Annual Snowfall
2.7"
Schools
Total Schools
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Ardmore's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
24,706 residents
2021
24,781 residents
2022
24,841 residents
2023
24,993 residents
2024
25,080 residents
2025
24,956 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
55
housing units authorized
Single-Family
55
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
30
30
0
$4.5M
2020
31
31
0
$4.9M
2021
34
34
0
$6.1M
2022
16
14
2
$3.0M
2023
7
3
4
$1.4M
2024
55
55
0
$8.3M
Permit volume increased 83% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.5%
Carpool
13.0%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
3.5%
Other
2.4%
Based on 10,771 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Oklahoma statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $205
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Oklahoma at $205 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Oklahoma statewide averages, not a meter reading for Ardmore. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Oklahoma's BEA cost-of-living index is 87.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Ardmore is $995/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Oklahoma statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Oklahoma statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Ardmore sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ardmore compares to similar-size Oklahoma cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.