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SheetOK-MUSKOGEE-OK · Muskogee, OK 36,819 pop · income 18th pct · 20 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 Muskogee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Muskogee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Stillwater · lowest
42,015
Stillwater · lowest
42,015 median HH income
25.7% of the leader · rank #1
Walton · near
48,725
Walton · near
48,725 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #2
Arcata · near
48,731
Arcata · near
48,731 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #3
Rock Falls · near
48,733
Rock Falls · near
48,733 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #4
Muskogee · this city
48,735
Muskogee · this city
48,735 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #5
Lakeview · near
48,750
Lakeview · near
48,750 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #6
Oakton · highest
163,662
Oakton · highest
163,662 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 Muskogee 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: 36,819.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Muskogee - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Muskogee lands in the 18th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
18th
percentile, household income
19th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Muskogee, OK
36,819 people live in Muskogee, Oklahoma - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Muskogee brings in $48,735 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 18.4%. Home values in Muskogee run a median of $124,900, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. 18.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 38 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 245% from five years earlier. Muskogee's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3935.2 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). NOAA puts Muskogee's yearly average temperature at 60.5°F with 43.1 inches of precipitation per year and 2.6 inches of snowfall.
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). 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). 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 Muskogee'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 climate and hazard context to population change to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to within-city variation to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Muskogee, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Muskogee?
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 60.5°F, with 43.1 inches of precipitation and 2.6 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.
Is Muskogee growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +6 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 38 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Muskogee?
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 Bartlesville (37,559 residents, $59,457 income); Owasso (39,013 residents, $79,386 income); Shawnee (31,511 residents, $54,281 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hanover Park, IL (36,850 residents); Oakton, VA (36,776 residents); Rock Island, IL (36,758 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.
PlainCities matches 20 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Muskogee?
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 16 public schools within the city match. 18.2% 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
18.4%
Bachelor's degree+
18.2%
Matched public schools
16
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Muskogee?
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 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 18.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$124,900
Household income
$48,735
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Muskogee?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.7%. 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.
Drive alone
81.7%
Work from home
6.3%
Public transit
0.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 14,269 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Muskogee?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3935.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 73% higher 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.
Total reported rate
3935.2
Violent rate
986.5
Property rate
2948.7
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$48,735
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
18.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
987 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Muskogee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 29/100 (F) · 18.2%
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $48,735
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.4%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 987 /100k
Where Muskogee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Muskogee'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 - Muskogee highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Muskogee, OK (this city): home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
Hanover Park, IL : home $260,900, crime 542/100k
Rock Island, IL : home $118,400, crime 3,259/100k
Richfield, MN : home $320,400, crime 2,728/100k
Martinez, CA : home $824,700, crime 1,506/100k
Wildomar, CA : home $511,900, crime 1,123/100k
Bartlesville, OK : home $154,900, crime 2,492/100k
Owasso, OK : home $231,400, crime 1,533/100k
Shawnee, OK : home $147,800, crime 3,344/100k
Bixby, OK : home $298,200, crime 857/100k
Jenks, OK : home $285,600, crime 1,304/100k
Stillwater, OK : home $230,900, crime 1,733/100k
How does Muskogee compare to other US cities?
Muskogee 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 value19% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety8% 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, Muskogee ranks #195 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 Muskogee 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 Muskogee near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Muskogee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Muskogee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#373 of 639
42nd percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#224 of 628
64th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#177 of 671
73rd percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#234 of 671
65th 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 · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Muskogee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Muskogee'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 Muskogee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$124,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 81% 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
Muskogee's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,334 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#408 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Muskogee sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,334 of 15,516 and #408 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
$48,735Muskogee, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Muskogee, 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 Muskogee, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,819
Median Income
$48,735
Median Home Value
$124,900
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
18.4%
Labor force participation
51.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3935.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
986.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2948.7
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
60.5°F
Annual Precipitation
43.1"
Annual Snowfall
2.6"
Schools
Total Schools
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Muskogee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,754 residents
2021
36,718 residents
2022
36,652 residents
2023
36,854 residents
2024
36,858 residents
2025
36,760 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
38
housing units authorized
Single-Family
38
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
11
0
$2.0M
2020
25
25
0
$5.3M
2021
43
43
0
$8.2M
2022
35
35
0
$7.6M
2023
35
35
0
$7.3M
2024
38
38
0
$8.0M
Permit volume increased 245% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.7%
Carpool
7.8%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
6.3%
Other
2.1%
Based on 14,269 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 Muskogee. 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 Muskogee 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 Muskogee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Muskogee 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.