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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-DEL-CITY-OK · Del City, OK 21,561 pop · income 18th 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 Del City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Del City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sebring · lowest
48,887
Sebring · lowest
48,887 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #1
Golden · near
48,889
Golden · near
48,889 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #2
Hall · near
48,889
Hall · near
48,889 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #3
Del City · this city
48,895
Del City · this city
48,895 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #4
Violet · near
48,897
Violet · near
48,897 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #5
Gildford · near
48,897
Gildford · near
48,897 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #6
Waxhaw · highest
128,115
Waxhaw · highest
128,115 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 Del City 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: 21,561.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Del City - the verdict
Del City ranks in the 18th percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
18th
percentile, household income
14th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Del City, OK
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 21,561 residents in Del City, a small city within Oklahoma. The typical household in Del City brings in $48,895 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 16.4%. Typical homes in Del City are valued around $112,800, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. 15.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 14 residential building permits were authorized in Del City (Building Boom), up 180% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Del City's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3673.6 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).
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $995 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oklahoma's average monthly utility costs around $205 (state average). Workers in Del City report an average commute of 18.5 minutes, with 78.5% driving alone and 7.6% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 55.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Del City'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Del City, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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 Del City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -663 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 14 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Del City?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Mustang (21,290 residents, $88,262 income); Sapulpa (22,268 residents, $61,644 income); Bethany (20,606 residents, $55,063 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Waxhaw, NC (21,565 residents); Clemmons, NC (21,574 residents); Alliance, OH (21,574 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 does the journey to work look like in Del City?
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 78.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.5 minutes.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 15.8% 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Del City?
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 3673.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 61% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3148.8
Violent rate
524.8
Total reported rate
3673.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Del City?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.4%, 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
$48,895
Home value
$112,800
Value / income
2.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 F
15.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$48,895
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
525 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Del City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 22/100 (F) · 15.8%
Poverty rate: 20/100 (F) · 16.4%
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $48,895
Violent crime: 14/100 (F) · 525 /100k
Where Del City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Del City'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 - Del City highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Del City, OK (this city): home $112,800, crime 3,674/100k
Waxhaw, NC : home $506,300, crime 481/100k
Alliance, OH : home $113,300, crime 2,336/100k
Ennis, TX : home $225,900, crime 1,701/100k
Seymour, IN : home $153,300, crime 1,610/100k
Mustang, OK : home $227,800, crime 807/100k
Sapulpa, OK : home $158,300, crime 1,578/100k
Bethany, OK : home $161,500, crime 1,741/100k
Duncan, OK : home $125,800, crime 2,425/100k
Sand Springs, OK : home $186,700, crime 3,005/100k
Claremore, OK : home $172,500, crime 1,913/100k
How does Del City compare to other US cities?
Del City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income18% higher than other cities
Home value14% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety9% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Oklahoma and the picture shifts: Del City ranks #191 of 203 Oklahoma cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Del City 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 Del City near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Del City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Del City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#365 of 639
43rd percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#270 of 628
57th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#233 of 671
65th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#295 of 671
56th 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
18th percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Del City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Del City'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 Del City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$112,800Among 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
Del City's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,987 of 15,516
More affordable than 81% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#211 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.3×, Del City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,987 of 15,516 and #211 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
$48,895Del City, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Del City, 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 Del City, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,561
Median Income
$48,895
Median Home Value
$112,800
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
16.4%
Labor force participation
55.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3673.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
524.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3148.8
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Del City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,801 residents
2021
21,595 residents
2022
21,459 residents
2023
21,375 residents
2024
21,319 residents
2025
21,138 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
14
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$0.7M
2020
3
3
0
$0.3M
2021
7
7
0
$1.3M
2022
8
8
0
$1.5M
2023
8
8
0
$1.5M
2024
14
14
0
$2.7M
Permit volume increased 180% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.5 minutes
Drive Alone
78.5%
Carpool
9.4%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
7.6%
Other
3.7%
Based on 9,070 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 Del City. 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 Del City 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 Del City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Del City 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.