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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-SHAWNEE-OK · Shawnee, OK 31,511 pop · income 26th 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 Shawnee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Shawnee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
LaGrange · lowest
41,491
LaGrange · lowest
41,491 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #1
Macdona · near
54,279
Macdona · near
54,279 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #2
Seven Mile · near
54,280
Seven Mile · near
54,280 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #3
Shawnee · this city
54,281
Shawnee · this city
54,281 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #4
Hartford · near
54,286
Hartford · near
54,286 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #5
Winchester · near
54,286
Winchester · near
54,286 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #6
Centereach · highest
127,106
Centereach · highest
127,106 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 Shawnee 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: 31,511.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Shawnee - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Shawnee lands in the 26th percentile for household income and the 12th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
26th
percentile, household income
26th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
12th
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: Shawnee, OK
Oklahoma's Shawnee is a small city, with 31,511 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $54,281 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.3%. Home values in Shawnee run a median of $147,800, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. Educational attainment runs 25.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 149 residential building permits were authorized in Shawnee (Building Boom), up 126% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Shawnee's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3344.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Shawnee's yearly average temperature at 60.9°F.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $205 across Oklahoma, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 18.7 minutes, with 82.3% driving alone and 6.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Shawnee'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 schools and households to reported crime to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to housing and income to climate and hazard context to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Shawnee, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Shawnee?
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 25.8% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Shawnee?
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 3344.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 47% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 20 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Shawnee?
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Bixby (29,402 residents, $99,602 income); Jenks (26,519 residents, $104,970 income); Muskogee (36,819 residents, $48,735 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Centereach, NY (31,501 residents); Eagle, ID (31,490 residents); LaGrange, GA (31,479 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Shawnee?
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 15.3%, 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
$54,281
Home value
$147,800
Value / income
2.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 60.9°F. 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.
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.
Mean temperature
60.9°F
FEMA risk index (state avg)
55.5
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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 +1,175 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 149 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
+3.8%
2025 estimate
32,474
2020 estimate
31,299
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Shawnee?
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 82.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.7 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
6.3%
Drive alone
82.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 12,763 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 15.3% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
D
City profile score · Shawnee, OK
41/100
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 C-
25.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$54,281
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
501 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Shawnee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 51/100 (C-) · 25.8%
Household income: 26/100 (F) · $54,281
Poverty rate: 22/100 (F) · 15.3%
Violent crime: 16/100 (F) · 501 /100k
Where Shawnee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Shawnee'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 - Shawnee highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Shawnee, OK (this city): home $147,800, crime 3,344/100k
LaGrange, GA : home $175,600, crime 5,111/100k
New Bern, NC : home $211,500, crime 1,979/100k
Fitchburg, WI : home $389,400, crime 1,616/100k
Bixby, OK : home $298,200, crime 857/100k
Jenks, OK : home $285,600, crime 1,304/100k
Muskogee, OK : home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
Bartlesville, OK : home $154,900, crime 2,492/100k
Yukon, OK : home $185,800, crime 1,355/100k
Ardmore, OK : home $158,800, crime 4,247/100k
How does Shawnee compare to other US cities?
Here's how Shawnee stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income26% higher than other cities
Home value26% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety12% 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, Shawnee ranks #183 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 Shawnee 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 Shawnee near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Shawnee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Shawnee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#285 of 639
55th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#172 of 628
73rd percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#257 of 671
61st percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#110 of 671
84th 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
26th percentile nationally for median household income · 12th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Shawnee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Shawnee'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 Shawnee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$147,800Among 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
Shawnee's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,150 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#571 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Shawnee sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,150 of 15,516 and #571 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
$54,281Shawnee, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Shawnee, 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 Shawnee, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
31,511
Median Income
$54,281
Median Home Value
$147,800
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
15.3%
Labor force participation
52.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3344.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
500.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2843.6
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
60.9°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Shawnee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
31,299 residents
2021
31,548 residents
2022
31,649 residents
2023
31,828 residents
2024
32,126 residents
2025
32,474 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
149
housing units authorized
Single-Family
95
detached homes
Multifamily
54
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
66
64
2
$11.4M
2020
123
123
0
$20.6M
2021
76
50
26
$15.7M
2022
83
51
32
$14.0M
2023
115
98
17
$21.5M
2024
149
95
54
$23.6M
Permit volume increased 126% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.7 minutes
Drive Alone
82.3%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
6.3%
Other
1.4%
Based on 12,763 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 Shawnee. 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 Shawnee 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 Shawnee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Shawnee 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.