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SheetOK-SALLISAW-OK · Sallisaw, OK 8,553 pop · income 16th pct · 12 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 Sallisaw
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sallisaw on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cushing · lowest
44,282
Cushing · lowest
44,282 median HH income
33.9% of the leader · rank #1
Bridgeport · near
47,325
Bridgeport · near
47,325 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #2
Knights Landi… · near
47,328
Knights Landi… · near
47,328 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #3
Mechanicville · near
47,331
Mechanicville · near
47,331 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #4
Sallisaw · this city
47,333
Sallisaw · this city
47,333 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #5
Fellsmere · near
47,335
Fellsmere · near
47,335 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #6
Innsbrook · highest
130,534
Innsbrook · highest
130,534 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 Sallisaw 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: 8,553.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sallisaw - the verdict
Nationally, Sallisaw sits in the 16th percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
16th
percentile, household income
19th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Sallisaw, OK
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 8,553 residents in Sallisaw, a small town within Oklahoma. The typical household in Sallisaw brings in $47,333 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 23.2%. Home values in Sallisaw run a median of $123,500, and the median resident age is 35.9 years. 15.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 50.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 46 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 283% from five years earlier. Sallisaw's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3660.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Sallisaw's yearly average temperature at 60.2°F with 47.4 inches of precipitation per year and 1.9 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Oklahoma run below the national norm: the state registers 87.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $995 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $205 across Oklahoma, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Sallisaw'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 within-city variation to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sallisaw, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Sallisaw growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +260 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 46 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 Sallisaw?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.8%. 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.
PlainCities matches 12 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sallisaw?
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 Skiatook (8,553 residents, $55,444 income); Collinsville (8,468 residents, $88,537 income); Clinton (8,461 residents, $58,417 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wedgefield, FL (8,556 residents); Ellsworth, ME (8,550 residents); Corrales, NM (8,557 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 Sallisaw?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 15.9% 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
23.2%
Bachelor's degree+
15.9%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sallisaw?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3660.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 60% 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
3660.2
Violent rate
506.4
Property rate
3153.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 60.2°F, with 47.4 inches of precipitation and 1.9 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
47.4 in
Mean temperature
60.2°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 Sallisaw?
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 23.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$123,500
Household income
$47,333
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Low income · poverty 23.2% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
F
City profile score · Sallisaw, OK
31/100
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 F
15.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$47,333
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
506 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
23.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Sallisaw profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 23/100 (F) · 15.9%
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,333
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 506 /100k
Poverty rate: 8/100 (F) · 23.2%
Where Sallisaw sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sallisaw'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 - Sallisaw highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Sallisaw, OK (this city): home $123,500, crime 3,660/100k
Ellsworth, ME : home $214,500, crime 2,553/100k
Corrales, NM : home $549,700, crime 624/100k
Napoleon, OH : home $139,500, crime 2,031/100k
Skiatook, OK : home $168,600, crime 1,422/100k
Collinsville, OK : home $207,100, crime 840/100k
Clinton, OK : home $112,500, crime 1,941/100k
Cushing, OK : home $112,100, crime 2,674/100k
Poteau, OK : home $142,400, crime 3,231/100k
Piedmont, OK : home $298,600, crime 312/100k
How does Sallisaw compare to other US cities?
Here's how Sallisaw stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Home value19% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety9% 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, Sallisaw ranks #190 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 Sallisaw 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 Sallisaw near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sallisaw ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sallisaw only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#396 of 639
38th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#227 of 628
64th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#104 of 671
84th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#292 of 671
56th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sallisaw's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sallisaw'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 Sallisaw's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$123,500Among 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
Sallisaw's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,555 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,050 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Sallisaw sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,555 of 15,516 and #4,050 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
$47,333Sallisaw, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sallisaw, 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 Sallisaw, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,553
Median Income
$47,333
Median Home Value
$123,500
Median Age
35.9
Poverty Rate
23.2%
Labor force participation
50.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3660.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
506.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3153.8
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
60.2°F
Annual Precipitation
47.4"
Annual Snowfall
1.9"
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sallisaw's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,530 residents
2021
8,556 residents
2022
8,600 residents
2023
8,650 residents
2024
8,677 residents
2025
8,790 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
46
housing units authorized
Single-Family
30
detached homes
Multifamily
16
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
12
8
4
$1.7M
2020
23
13
10
$2.0M
2021
35
21
14
$5.3M
2022
22
10
12
$2.7M
2023
17
9
8
$2.3M
2024
46
30
16
$8.2M
Permit volume increased 283% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.8%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
5.0%
Work from Home
4.7%
Other
0.7%
Based on 3,172 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 Sallisaw. 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 Sallisaw 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 Sallisaw sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sallisaw 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.