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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-DAVIS-OK · Davis, OK 2,805 pop · income 24th pct
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 Davis
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Davis on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Eufaula · lowest
38,594
Eufaula · lowest
38,594 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #1
Stendal · near
53,144
Stendal · near
53,144 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #2
Galliano · near
53,146
Galliano · near
53,146 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #3
Davis · this city
53,147
Davis · this city
53,147 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #4
Gibbon · near
53,148
Gibbon · near
53,148 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #5
Hummelstown · near
53,148
Hummelstown · near
53,148 median HH income
76.0% of the leader · rank #6
Blackhawk · highest
69,934
Blackhawk · highest
69,934 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 Davis 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: 2,805.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Davis - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Davis places in the 24th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
24th
percentile, household income
14th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Davis, OK
Davis is a small town in Oklahoma, home to 2,805 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Davis households earn a median of $53,147 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 16.1%. Typical homes in Davis are valued around $111,800, and the median resident age is 34.7 years. 12.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 56.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 5 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 17% from five years earlier. Davis's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3083.5 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oklahoma's average monthly utility costs around $205 (state average). The average commute for Davis workers runs 21.3 minutes, with 89.8% driving alone and 1.2% 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 Davis'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 schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Davis, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Davis growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +10 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 12.6% 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.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 89.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.3 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Davis?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Eufaula (2,783 residents, $38,594 income); Longtown (2,836 residents, $57,655 income); Stroud (2,771 residents, $54,519 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Blackhawk, SD (2,805 residents); Moline Acres, MO (2,806 residents); Garrettsville, OH (2,806 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.
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 Davis?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.1%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
Household income
$53,147
Home value
$111,800
Value / income
2.1×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Davis?
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 3083.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2509.9
Violent rate
573.7
Total reported rate
3083.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Household income F
$53,147
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
574 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Davis profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Household income: 25/100 (F) · $53,147
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 16.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 14/100 (F) · 12.6%
Violent crime: 11/100 (F) · 574 /100k
Where Davis sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Davis'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 - Davis highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Davis, OK (this city): home $111,800, crime 3,084/100k
Moline Acres, MO : home $76,500, crime 3,659/100k
Glenrock, WY : home $218,300, crime 372/100k
Eufaula, OK : home $180,300, crime 2,207/100k
Stroud, OK : home $120,000, crime 2,308/100k
Mangum, OK : home $90,200, crime 1,318/100k
Lindsay, OK : home $106,800, crime 2,301/100k
Wilburton, OK : home $94,400, crime 1,482/100k
How does Davis compare to other US cities?
Here's how Davis 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 value14% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety15% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Oklahoma, Davis ranks #174 of 203 Oklahoma cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Davis 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 Davis near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Davis ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Davis only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#309 of 639
52nd percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#281 of 628
55th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#240 of 671
64th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#388 of 671
42nd 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 · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Davis's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Davis'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 Davis's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$111,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 86% 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
Davis's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,018 of 15,516
More affordable than 87% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,913 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.1×, Davis sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,018 of 15,516 and #1,913 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$53,147Davis, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Davis, 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 Davis, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.1%
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
2,805
Median Income
$53,147
Median Home Value
$111,800
Median Age
34.7
Poverty Rate
16.1%
Labor force participation
56.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3083.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
573.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2509.9
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.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Davis's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,826 residents
2021
2,801 residents
2022
2,794 residents
2023
2,798 residents
2024
2,846 residents
2025
2,836 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
6
6
0
$0.4M
2020
6
6
0
$0.6M
2021
7
7
0
$0.8M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
16
6
10
$2.9M
2024
5
5
0
$0.6M
Permit volume decreased 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.3 minutes
Drive Alone
89.8%
Carpool
5.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
1.2%
Other
1.3%
Based on 1,154 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 Davis. 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 Davis 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 Davis sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Davis 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, 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.