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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-PRYOR-CREEK-OK · Pryor Creek, OK 9,520 pop · income 10th pct · 10 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 Pryor Creek
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pryor Creek on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pryor Creek · this city · lowest
42,500
Pryor Creek · this city · lowest
42,500 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #1
Ider · near
42,500
Ider · near
42,500 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #2
Mentone · near
42,500
Mentone · near
42,500 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #3
Teller · near
42,500
Teller · near
42,500 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #4
Tuckerman · near
42,500
Tuckerman · near
42,500 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #5
Countryside · highest
143,229
Countryside · highest
143,229 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Pryor Creek 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: 9,520.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pryor Creek - the verdict
Pryor Creek ranks in the 10th percentile for household income and the 20th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
10th
percentile, household income
26th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
20th
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: Pryor Creek, OK
Pryor Creek is a small town in Oklahoma, home to 9,520 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Pryor Creek brings in $42,500 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 19.0%. Typical homes in Pryor Creek are valued around $146,200, and the median resident age is 32.9 years. 14.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 6 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 54% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2681.2 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).
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $995 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Oklahoma run around $205, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Pryor Creek report an average commute of 19.2 minutes, with 77.6% driving alone and 9.2% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pryor Creek'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 population change to within-city variation to comparison shortlist 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 Pryor Creek, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count; 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 Pryor Creek?
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 77.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.2 minutes.
Is Pryor Creek growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +272 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can 10 Census tracts reveal inside Pryor Creek?
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.
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pryor Creek?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are The (9,470 residents, $70,788 income); Blanchard (9,276 residents, $89,472 income); Poteau (8,903 residents, $49,789 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Girard, OH (9,521 residents); Countryside, VA (9,521 residents); Oil City, PA (9,517 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pryor Creek?
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 2681.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2248.1
Violent rate
433.1
Total reported rate
2681.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Pryor Creek?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.0%, 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.
Household income
$42,500
Home value
$146,200
Value / income
3.4×
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.
Violent crime F
433 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$42,500
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Pryor Creek profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Violent crime: 20/100 (F) · 433 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.1%
Poverty rate: 15/100 (F) · 19.0%
Household income: 10/100 (F) · $42,500
Where Pryor Creek sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pryor Creek'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 - Pryor Creek highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Pryor Creek, OK (this city): home $146,200, crime 2,681/100k
Girard, OH : home $105,700, crime 1,622/100k
Oil City, PA : home $66,600, crime 903/100k
Itasca, IL : home $375,600, crime 797/100k
Blanchard, OK : home $259,100, crime 797/100k
Poteau, OK : home $142,400, crime 3,231/100k
Coweta, OK : home $185,900, crime 725/100k
Warr Acres, OK : home $150,500, crime 3,845/100k
Sallisaw, OK : home $123,500, crime 3,660/100k
How does Pryor Creek compare to other US cities?
Pryor Creek measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income10% higher than other cities
Home value26% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety20% 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: Pryor Creek ranks #168 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 Pryor Creek 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 Pryor Creek near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pryor Creek ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pryor Creek only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#471 of 639
26th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#175 of 628
72nd percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#159 of 671
76th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#344 of 671
48th 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
10th percentile nationally for median household income · 20th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pryor Creek's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pryor Creek'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 Pryor Creek's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$146,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 74% 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
Pryor Creek's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,736 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,079 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Pryor Creek sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,736 of 15,516 and #7,079 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$42,500Pryor Creek, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pryor Creek, 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 Pryor Creek, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,520
Median Income
$42,500
Median Home Value
$146,200
Median Age
32.9
Poverty Rate
19.0%
Labor force participation
52.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2681.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
433.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2248.1
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pryor Creek's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,451 residents
2021
9,486 residents
2022
9,558 residents
2023
9,638 residents
2024
9,687 residents
2025
9,723 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
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
13
13
0
$1.8M
2020
19
17
2
$2.0M
2021
29
21
8
$4.4M
2022
21
17
4
$3.3M
2023
21
21
0
$3.2M
2024
6
6
0
$1.0M
Permit volume decreased 54% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.2 minutes
Drive Alone
77.6%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
9.2%
Other
1.1%
Based on 3,850 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 Pryor Creek. 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 Pryor Creek 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 Pryor Creek sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pryor Creek 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, 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.