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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-GUTHRIE-OK · Guthrie, OK 11,021 pop · income 27th pct · 13 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 Guthrie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Guthrie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Okmulgee · lowest
39,060
Okmulgee · lowest
39,060 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #1
Houma · near
54,637
Houma · near
54,637 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #2
Guthrie · this city
54,640
Guthrie · this city
54,640 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #3
Bodcaw · near
54,643
Bodcaw · near
54,643 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #4
Farmington · near
54,643
Farmington · near
54,643 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #5
Jasper · near
54,643
Jasper · near
54,643 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #6
Greentree · highest
144,426
Greentree · highest
144,426 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 Guthrie 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: 11,021.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Guthrie - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Guthrie places in the 27th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Guthrie, OK
11,021 people live in Guthrie, Oklahoma - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Guthrie households earn a median of $54,640 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.7%. Typical homes in Guthrie are valued around $176,200, and the median resident age is 39.7 years. Educational attainment runs 23.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 95 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 764% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1834.8 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 59.7°F with 38.2 inches of precipitation per year and 7.1 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. 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). Commute times here average 23.1 minutes, with 85.2% driving alone and 6.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Guthrie'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Guthrie, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Guthrie?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1834.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% lower 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Guthrie?
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 Okmulgee (11,370 residents, $39,060 income); Elk City (11,406 residents, $49,500 income); Warr Acres (10,437 residents, $60,822 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Burlington, WI (11,021 residents); Sierra Madre, CA (11,020 residents); Shiloh, PA (11,022 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.
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 10 public schools within the city match. 23.4% 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.
PlainCities matches 13 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Guthrie?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.1 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
85.2%
Work from home
6.5%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,799 workers age 16+.
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 59.7°F, with 38.2 inches of precipitation and 7.1 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
55.5
Annual precipitation
38.2 in
Mean temperature
59.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Guthrie?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.2×
Home value
$176,200
Household income
$54,640
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,383 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 95 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
10,874
2025 estimate
12,257
Period change
+12.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 14.7% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
D
City profile score · Guthrie, 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.
Violent crime C
164 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$54,640
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Guthrie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Violent crime: 55/100 (C) · 164 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.4%
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,640
Poverty rate: 23/100 (F) · 14.7%
Where Guthrie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Guthrie'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 - Guthrie highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Guthrie, OK (this city): home $176,200, crime 1,835/100k
Burlington, WI : home $268,300, crime 1,060/100k
Sierra Madre, CA : home $1,172,200, crime 806/100k
Celina, OH : home $158,800, crime 1,021/100k
Okmulgee, OK : home $90,200, crime 3,613/100k
Elk City, OK : home $165,300, crime 1,259/100k
Warr Acres, OK : home $150,500, crime 3,845/100k
Coweta, OK : home $185,900, crime 725/100k
Woodward, OK : home $164,200, crime 1,701/100k
Weatherford, OK : home $233,700, crime 450/100k
How does Guthrie compare to other US cities?
Here's how Guthrie stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety36% 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: Guthrie ranks #119 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 Guthrie 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 Guthrie near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Guthrie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Guthrie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#278 of 639
56th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#102 of 628
84th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#273 of 671
59th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#135 of 671
80th 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
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Guthrie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Guthrie'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 Guthrie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$176,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
Guthrie's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,800 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,204 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Guthrie sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,800 of 15,516 and #1,204 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$54,640Guthrie, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Guthrie, 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 Guthrie, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,021
Median Income
$54,640
Median Home Value
$176,200
Median Age
39.7
Poverty Rate
14.7%
Labor force participation
54.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1834.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
163.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1671.1
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
59.7°F
Annual Precipitation
38.2"
Annual Snowfall
7.1"
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Guthrie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,874 residents
2021
11,112 residents
2022
11,304 residents
2023
11,525 residents
2024
11,790 residents
2025
12,257 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
95
housing units authorized
Single-Family
93
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
11
0
$2.1M
2020
12
12
0
$1.9M
2021
20
20
0
$4.2M
2022
16
16
0
$4.1M
2023
73
73
0
$16.1M
2024
95
93
2
$27.8M
Permit volume increased 764% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.1 minutes
Drive Alone
85.2%
Carpool
4.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
6.5%
Other
1.2%
Based on 4,799 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 Guthrie. 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 Guthrie 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 Guthrie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Guthrie 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.