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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-BARTLESVILLE-OK · Bartlesville, OK 37,559 pop · income 34th pct · 14 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 Bartlesville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bartlesville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Stillwater · lowest
42,015
Stillwater · lowest
42,015 median HH income
26.8% of the leader · rank #1
Beaufort · near
59,454
Beaufort · near
59,454 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #2
Bartlesville · this city
59,457
Bartlesville · this city
59,457 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #3
North Hyde Pa… · near
59,458
North Hyde Pa… · near
59,458 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #4
Kelso · near
59,462
Kelso · near
59,462 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #5
French Island · near
59,462
French Island · near
59,462 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #6
Pacifica · highest
156,819
Pacifica · highest
156,819 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 Bartlesville 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: 37,559.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bartlesville - the verdict
Nationally, Bartlesville sits in the 34th percentile for household income and the 23rd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
34th
percentile, household income
28th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
23rd
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: Bartlesville, OK
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 37,559 residents in Bartlesville, a small city within Oklahoma. Bartlesville households earn a median of $59,457 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.7%. Home values in Bartlesville run a median of $154,900, and the median resident age is 36.9 years. Educational attainment runs 33.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 56.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 44 residential building permits were authorized in Bartlesville (Building Boom), up 175% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2492.1 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 58.0°F with 39.7 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in Oklahoma run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Oklahoma at 87.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $995 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oklahoma's average monthly utility costs around $205 (state average). Workers in Bartlesville report an average commute of 16.0 minutes, with 74.5% driving alone and 7.3% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bartlesville'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 population change to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bartlesville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Bartlesville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +918 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 44 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can 14 Census tracts reveal inside Bartlesville?
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.
PlainCities matches 14 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bartlesville?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Muskogee (36,819 residents, $48,735 income); Owasso (39,013 residents, $79,386 income); Shawnee (31,511 residents, $54,281 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Monrovia, CA (37,553 residents); Carpentersville, IL (37,544 residents); Pleasant Grove, UT (37,544 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.
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.
What physical conditions frame life in Bartlesville?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 58.0°F, with 39.7 inches of precipitation. 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.
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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Bartlesville?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 33.5% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
13
Bachelor's degree+
33.5%
Poverty estimate
11.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bartlesville?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2492.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 9% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2124.6
Violent rate
367.6
Total reported rate
2492.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Bartlesville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$59,457
Home value
$154,900
Value / income
2.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Bartlesville?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.0 minutes.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
7.3%
Drive alone
74.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 16,179 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 11.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
D
City profile score · Bartlesville, OK
48/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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 C+
33.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$59,457
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
368 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bartlesville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.5%
Household income: 34/100 (F) · $59,457
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.7%
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 368 /100k
Where Bartlesville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bartlesville'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 - Bartlesville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Bartlesville, OK (this city): home $154,900, crime 2,492/100k
Monrovia, CA : home $891,700, crime 2,612/100k
Carpentersville, IL : home $225,200, crime 891/100k
Pleasant Grove, UT : home $454,300, crime 913/100k
New Albany, IN : home $169,600, crime 2,687/100k
Pacifica, CA : home $1,211,700, crime 1,451/100k
Muskogee, OK : home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
Owasso, OK : home $231,400, crime 1,533/100k
Shawnee, OK : home $147,800, crime 3,344/100k
Bixby, OK : home $298,200, crime 857/100k
Jenks, OK : home $285,600, crime 1,304/100k
Stillwater, OK : home $230,900, crime 1,733/100k
How does Bartlesville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bartlesville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value28% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety23% 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, Bartlesville ranks #160 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 Bartlesville 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 Bartlesville near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bartlesville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bartlesville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#213 of 639
67th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#157 of 628
75th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#371 of 671
44th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#62 of 671
91st 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
34th percentile nationally for median household income · 23rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bartlesville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bartlesville'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 Bartlesville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$154,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 72% 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
Bartlesville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,535 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#448 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Bartlesville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,535 of 15,516 and #448 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
$59,457Bartlesville, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bartlesville, 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 Bartlesville, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
37,559
Median Income
$59,457
Median Home Value
$154,900
Median Age
36.9
Poverty Rate
11.7%
Labor force participation
56.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2492.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
367.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2124.6
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
58.0°F
Annual Precipitation
39.7"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bartlesville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
37,360 residents
2021
37,539 residents
2022
37,787 residents
2023
38,095 residents
2024
38,196 residents
2025
38,278 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
44
housing units authorized
Single-Family
36
detached homes
Multifamily
8
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
16
16
0
$2.5M
2020
22
22
0
$4.4M
2021
85
85
0
$23.5M
2022
59
53
6
$19.7M
2023
37
22
15
$14.0M
2024
44
36
8
$13.0M
Permit volume increased 175% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.0 minutes
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
14.5%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
7.3%
Other
1.5%
Based on 16,179 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 Bartlesville. 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 Bartlesville 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 Bartlesville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bartlesville 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.