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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-HARRAH-OK · Harrah, OK 6,377 pop · income 56th 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 Harrah
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Harrah on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Idabel · lowest
36,638
Idabel · lowest
36,638 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #1
Harrah · this city
75,000
Harrah · this city
75,000 median HH income
57.6% of the leader · rank #2
Scranton · near
75,000
Scranton · near
75,000 median HH income
57.6% of the leader · rank #3
Auberry · near
75,000
Auberry · near
75,000 median HH income
57.6% of the leader · rank #4
University of… · near
75,000
University of… · near
75,000 median HH income
57.6% of the leader · rank #5
Southern Ute · near
75,000
Southern Ute · near
75,000 median HH income
57.6% of the leader · rank #6
Kingston · highest
130,179
Kingston · highest
130,179 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 Harrah 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: 6,377.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Harrah - the verdict
Nationally, Harrah sits in the 56th percentile for household income and the 52nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
56th
percentile, household income
47th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
52nd
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: Harrah, OK
6,377 people live in Harrah, Oklahoma - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Harrah households earn a median of $75,000 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.4%. Typical homes in Harrah are valued around $216,300, and the median resident age is 35.2 years. Educational attainment runs 29.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 157 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 214% from five years earlier. Harrah reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1300.1 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Oklahoma at 87.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $995 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Oklahoma run around $205, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Harrah'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 work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Harrah, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
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.
Question 1
Is Harrah growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +679 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 157 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Harrah?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.4%. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Harrah?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1300.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 43% 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 Harrah?
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 Tecumseh (6,320 residents, $46,352 income); Blackwell (6,091 residents, $50,104 income); Purcell (6,716 residents, $60,529 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Johnsburg, IL (6,374 residents); Kingston, MA (6,373 residents); Nolanville, TX (6,372 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Harrah?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 29.3% 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
10.4%
Bachelor's degree+
29.3%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Harrah?
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 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$216,300
Household income
$75,000
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 10.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
C
City profile score · Harrah, OK
59/100
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
29.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$75,000
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C-
181 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
10.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Harrah profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.3%
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $75,000
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 181 /100k
Poverty rate: 38/100 (F) · 10.4%
Where Harrah sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Harrah'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 - Harrah highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Harrah, OK (this city): home $216,300, crime 1,300/100k
Kingston, MA : home $529,400, crime 896/100k
Nolanville, TX : home $179,800, crime 798/100k
Walker, LA : home $221,500, crime 3,892/100k
Chickasaw, AL : home $110,300, crime 2,586/100k
Ward, AR : home $182,100, crime 1,351/100k
Tecumseh, OK : home $107,600, crime 2,002/100k
Blackwell, OK : home $77,000, crime 2,585/100k
Purcell, OK : home $163,000, crime 2,306/100k
Pauls Valley, OK : home $84,100, crime 2,542/100k
Holdenville, OK : home $76,900, crime 1,791/100k
Idabel, OK : home $121,300, crime 2,283/100k
How does Harrah compare to other US cities?
Harrah measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value47% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety52% 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, Harrah ranks #80 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 Harrah 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 Harrah near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Harrah ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Harrah only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#101 of 639
84th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#46 of 628
93rd percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#413 of 671
38th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#84 of 671
87th 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income · 52nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Harrah's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Harrah'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 Harrah's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$216,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 53% 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
Harrah's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,025 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,184 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Harrah sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,025 of 15,516 and #5,184 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
$75,000Harrah, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Harrah, 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 Harrah, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,377
Median Income
$75,000
Median Home Value
$216,300
Median Age
35.2
Poverty Rate
10.4%
Labor force participation
59.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1300.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
181.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1118.7
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
Harrah's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,533 residents
2021
6,612 residents
2022
6,707 residents
2023
6,805 residents
2024
6,902 residents
2025
7,212 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
157
housing units authorized
Single-Family
157
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
24.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
50
50
0
$7.5M
2020
56
56
0
$10.1M
2021
54
54
0
$9.8M
2022
49
49
0
$8.9M
2023
46
46
0
$8.3M
2024
157
157
0
$45.2M
Permit volume increased 214% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.4%
Carpool
9.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
6.9%
Other
2.5%
Based on 2,807 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 Harrah. 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 Harrah 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 Harrah sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Harrah 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.