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SheetOK-SAPULPA-OK · Sapulpa, OK 22,268 pop · income 38th 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 Sapulpa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sapulpa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Del City · lowest
48,895
Del City · lowest
48,895 median HH income
34.1% of the leader · rank #1
Port Angeles · near
61,640
Port Angeles · near
61,640 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #2
Sandborn · near
61,641
Sandborn · near
61,641 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #3
Willoughby Hi… · near
61,641
Willoughby Hi… · near
61,641 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #4
Sapulpa · this city
61,644
Sapulpa · this city
61,644 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #5
Rensselaer · near
61,648
Rensselaer · near
61,648 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #6
Montclair · highest
143,357
Montclair · highest
143,357 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 Sapulpa 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: 22,268.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sapulpa - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Sapulpa lands in the 38th percentile for household income and the 43rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
29th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
43rd
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: Sapulpa, OK
Oklahoma's Sapulpa is a small city, with 22,268 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Sapulpa report a median income of $61,644 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.0%. Sapulpa's housing stock carries a median value of $158,300, and the median resident age is 40.0 years. Educational attainment runs 19.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 141 residential building permits were authorized in Sapulpa (Stable), down 5% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Sapulpa reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1577.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, below 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Oklahoma scores 87.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. 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 Sapulpa'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 Sapulpa, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count.
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 Sapulpa growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,774 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 141 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 Sapulpa?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.1%. 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 Sapulpa?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1577.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 31% 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 Sapulpa?
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 Duncan (22,872 residents, $57,020 income); Del City (21,561 residents, $48,895 income); Mustang (21,290 residents, $88,262 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Evans, CO (22,265 residents); Rancho San Diego, CA (22,264 residents); Perry, GA (22,243 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 Sapulpa?
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 9 public schools within the city match. 19.7% 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
12.0%
Bachelor's degree+
19.7%
Matched public schools
9
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Sapulpa?
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 12.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$158,300
Household income
$61,644
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 12.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
D
City profile score · Sapulpa, OK
49/100
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.
Violent crime C-
184 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$61,644
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Sapulpa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 184 /100k
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,644
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.7%
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 12.0%
Where Sapulpa sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sapulpa'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 - Sapulpa highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Sapulpa, OK (this city): home $158,300, crime 1,578/100k
Evans, CO : home $326,300, crime 1,925/100k
Perry, GA : home $209,300, crime 1,896/100k
Middleton, WI : home $457,400, crime 998/100k
Duncan, OK : home $125,800, crime 2,425/100k
Del City, OK : home $112,800, crime 3,674/100k
Mustang, OK : home $227,800, crime 807/100k
Bethany, OK : home $161,500, crime 1,741/100k
Ponca City, OK : home $127,500, crime 3,080/100k
Sand Springs, OK : home $186,700, crime 3,005/100k
How does Sapulpa compare to other US cities?
Here's how Sapulpa stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value29% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety43% 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: Sapulpa ranks #104 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 Sapulpa 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 Sapulpa near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sapulpa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sapulpa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#187 of 639
71st percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#150 of 628
76th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#358 of 671
46th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#207 of 671
69th 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 43rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sapulpa's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sapulpa'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 Sapulpa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 71% 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
Sapulpa's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,357 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#412 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Sapulpa sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,357 of 15,516 and #412 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
$61,644Sapulpa, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sapulpa, 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 Sapulpa, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
22,268
Median Income
$61,644
Median Home Value
$158,300
Median Age
40.0
Poverty Rate
12.0%
Labor force participation
57.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1577.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
184.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1393.5
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sapulpa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,921 residents
2021
22,197 residents
2022
22,502 residents
2023
22,923 residents
2024
23,229 residents
2025
23,695 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
141
housing units authorized
Single-Family
65
detached homes
Multifamily
76
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
149
53
96
$19.5M
2020
160
64
96
$21.9M
2021
187
74
113
$25.5M
2022
200
63
137
$24.9M
2023
159
62
97
$21.4M
2024
141
65
76
$20.5M
Permit volume decreased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.1%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
7.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 10,045 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 Sapulpa. 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 Sapulpa 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 Sapulpa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sapulpa 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.