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SheetOK-MIDWEST-CITY-OK · Midwest City, OK 58,170 pop · income 32nd 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 Midwest City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Midwest City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Stillwater · lowest
42,015
Stillwater · lowest
42,015 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #1
Cowarts · near
57,734
Cowarts · near
57,734 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #2
Theresa · near
57,738
Theresa · near
57,738 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #3
Midwest City · this city
57,739
Midwest City · this city
57,739 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #4
West Glendive · near
57,743
West Glendive · near
57,743 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #5
Caldwell · near
57,750
Caldwell · near
57,750 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #6
Hoboken · highest
176,943
Hoboken · highest
176,943 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 Midwest 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: 58,170.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Midwest City - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Midwest City places in the 32nd percentile for household income and the 24th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
32nd
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
24th
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: Midwest City, OK
58,170 people live in Midwest City, Oklahoma - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Midwest City report a median income of $57,739 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.7%. Typical homes in Midwest City are valued around $158,400, and the median resident age is 36.1 years. Educational attainment runs 24.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 346 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 128% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2427.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $995 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oklahoma's average monthly utility costs around $205 (state average). Workers in Midwest City report an average commute of 21.1 minutes, with 79.3% driving alone and 8.0% 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 Midwest 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 work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Midwest City, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Midwest 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 79.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.1 minutes.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Midwest 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 2427.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 6% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Midwest City?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.7%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Midwest City?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Moore (63,045 residents, $76,941 income); Enid (50,821 residents, $63,472 income); Stillwater (48,818 residents, $42,015 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are St. Peters, MO (58,200 residents); St. Clair Shores, MI (58,287 residents); Severn, MD (58,041 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Midwest City?
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 24.8% 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.
Matched public schools
11
Bachelor's degree+
24.8%
Poverty estimate
12.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Midwest City 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 +339 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 346 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+0.6%
2025 estimate
58,799
2020 estimate
58,460
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 12.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
D
City profile score · Midwest City, OK
45/100
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 D
24.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$57,739
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
347 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Midwest City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 48/100 (D) · 24.8%
Household income: 31/100 (F) · $57,739
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) · 12.7%
Violent crime: 26/100 (F) · 347 /100k
Where Midwest City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Midwest 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 - Midwest City highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Midwest City, OK (this city): home $158,400, crime 2,428/100k
St. Peters, MO : home $252,800, crime 1,265/100k
St. Clair Shores, MI : home $196,400, crime 1,251/100k
Lake Havasu City, AZ : home $411,500, crime 1,750/100k
Madison, AL : home $367,900, crime 1,538/100k
Hoboken, NJ : home $872,100, crime 1,972/100k
Moore, OK : home $189,300, crime 1,703/100k
Enid, OK : home $143,500, crime 2,922/100k
Stillwater, OK : home $230,900, crime 1,733/100k
Owasso, OK : home $231,400, crime 1,533/100k
Bartlesville, OK : home $154,900, crime 2,492/100k
Muskogee, OK : home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
How does Midwest City compare to other US cities?
Midwest City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income32% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety24% 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, Midwest City ranks #157 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 Midwest 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 Midwest City near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Midwest City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Midwest City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#236 of 639
63rd percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#149 of 628
76th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#337 of 671
49th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#118 of 671
82nd 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
32nd percentile nationally for median household income · 24th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Midwest City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Midwest 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 Midwest City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Midwest City's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,274 of 15,516
More affordable than 66% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#72 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.7×, Midwest City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,274 of 15,516 and #72 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$57,739Midwest City, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Midwest 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 Midwest City, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
58,170
Median Income
$57,739
Median Home Value
$158,400
Median Age
36.1
Poverty Rate
12.7%
Labor force participation
57.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2427.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
346.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2080.7
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Midwest City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
58,460 residents
2021
58,178 residents
2022
58,135 residents
2023
58,255 residents
2024
58,622 residents
2025
58,799 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
346
housing units authorized
Single-Family
34
detached homes
Multifamily
312
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
152
142
10
$22.0M
2020
123
121
2
$21.8M
2021
159
153
6
$26.4M
2022
172
96
76
$30.5M
2023
253
187
66
$57.2M
2024
346
34
312
$55.6M
Permit volume increased 128% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.1 minutes
Drive Alone
79.3%
Carpool
9.5%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
1.3%
Based on 25,693 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 Midwest 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 Midwest 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 Midwest City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Midwest 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.