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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-STILWELL-OK · Stilwell, OK 3,740 pop · income 3rd pct · 5 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 Stilwell
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Stilwell on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
32,734
Marion · lowest
32,734 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #1
Timmonsville · near
32,736
Timmonsville · near
32,736 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #2
Stilwell · this city
32,738
Stilwell · this city
32,738 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #3
Cocoa West · near
32,746
Cocoa West · near
32,746 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #4
Maynard · near
32,750
Maynard · near
32,750 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #5
Nichols Hills · highest
203,750
Nichols Hills · highest
203,750 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 Stilwell 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: 3,740.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Stilwell - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Stilwell lands in the 3rd percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
3rd
percentile, household income
9th
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: Stilwell, OK
3,740 people live in Stilwell, Oklahoma - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Stilwell households earn a median of $32,738 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 28.8%. Home values in Stilwell run a median of $99,800, and the median resident age is 33.5 years. Educational attainment runs 9.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 47.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 30 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Low Activity). Stilwell's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3899.9 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 59.1°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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $995 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Oklahoma run around $205, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 21.3 minutes, with 69.5% driving alone and 0.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Stilwell'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 within-city variation to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to housing and income to schools and households to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Stilwell, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Stilwell?
PlainCities matches 5 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 Stilwell?
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 Fort Gibson (3,805 residents, $69,632 income); Nichols Hills (3,838 residents, $203,750 income); Elgin (3,560 residents, $81,739 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Glens Falls, NY (3,739 residents); Mountain Green, UT (3,739 residents); Breñas comunidad, PR (3,739 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Stilwell?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.3 minutes.
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.
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 59.1°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.
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 Stilwell?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 28.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$99,800
Household income
$32,738
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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. 9.7% 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
28.8%
Bachelor's degree+
9.7%
Matched public schools
9
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Stilwell growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +195 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 30 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.
2020 estimate
3,697
2025 estimate
3,892
Period change
+5.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Stilwell?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3899.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 71% 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
3899.9
Violent rate
579.7
Property rate
3320.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 28.8% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Oklahoma average
F
City profile score · Stilwell, OK
22/100
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 F
580 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
28.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$32,738
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Stilwell profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Violent crime: 11/100 (F) · 580 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 6/100 (F) · 9.7%
Poverty rate: 1/100 (F) · 28.8%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $32,738
Where Stilwell sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Stilwell'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 - Stilwell highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Stilwell, OK (this city): home $99,800, crime 3,900/100k
Byron, IL : home $182,600, crime 372/100k
Mogadore, OH : home $168,400, crime 1,133/100k
Fort Gibson, OK : home $173,200, crime 1,251/100k
Nichols Hills, OK : home $855,300, crime 944/100k
Elgin, OK : home $243,600, crime 83/100k
Spencer, OK : home $119,000, crime 1,891/100k
Roland, OK : home $130,300, crime 1,528/100k
Nowata, OK : home $84,200, crime 1,993/100k
How does Stilwell compare to other US cities?
Here's how Stilwell stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income3% higher than other cities
Home value9% 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.
Zoom in to just Oklahoma and the picture shifts: Stilwell ranks #193 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 Stilwell 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 Stilwell near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Stilwell ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Stilwell only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#596 of 639
7th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#345 of 628
45th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#60 of 671
91st percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#479 of 671
28th 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
3rd percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Stilwell's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Stilwell'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 Stilwell's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$99,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 91% 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
Stilwell's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,937 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,826 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Stilwell sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,937 of 15,516 and #5,826 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
$32,738Stilwell, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Stilwell, 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 Stilwell, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)28.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,740
Median Income
$32,738
Median Home Value
$99,800
Median Age
33.5
Poverty Rate
28.8%
Labor force participation
47.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3899.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
579.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3320.2
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
59.1°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Stilwell's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,697 residents
2021
3,704 residents
2022
3,712 residents
2023
3,758 residents
2024
3,824 residents
2025
3,892 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
30
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
14
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
12
6
6
$1.5M
2021
7
1
6
$0.8M
2022
24
6
18
$2.3M
2023
25
13
12
$4.5M
2024
30
16
14
$5.6M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.3 minutes
Drive Alone
69.5%
Carpool
22.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.9%
Work from Home
0.2%
Other
2.6%
Based on 1,300 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 Stilwell. 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 Stilwell 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 Stilwell sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Stilwell 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.