74003Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 74003.

47out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 9% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5787th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured28
Schools3817th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured23
GrowthTop 37% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured58
Housing affordabilityTop 34% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured89
Climate4890th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured63
Physical resilience5026th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured32
Access5302nd of 6,791 ZIP areas measured80
Economic stability6335th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured27
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.0% and the Opportunity signal places 74003 in the bottom 7%.

In the public schools here, 16% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.4 students for every teacher.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, cold wave and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
14,024
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$47,168
Bottom 12% nationally
Density
108/sq mi
129.9 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Metro area
Bartlesville, OK
Nearest major airport
TUL
38 mi · Tulsa Intl
Median home value
$113,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.0% is lower than 28% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 16,378 employed residents.

Median household income of $47,168 is below 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,193$47,168Bottom 12%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,825$27,917Bottom 20%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate23.6%Top 13%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.0 minBottom 16%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher22.0%Bottom 46%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment16,378Bottom 13%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.7%Bottom 37%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 23%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force17,234Bottom 13%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation58.1%Bottom 40%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)1.4%Top 1%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 28%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202449k42k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $47,168 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Bartlesville, OK, the city containing this ZIP code.

16% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 16% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
16.1%
Bottom 21% in Oklahoma
Reading proficiency
15.7%
Bottom 14% in Oklahoma
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
BARTLESVILLE HSBARTLESVILLE1,78318.8
RICHARD KANE ESBARTLESVILLE48113.421%16%
JANE PHILLIPS ESBARTLESVILLE30312.18%8%
OSAGE HILLS PUBLIC SCHOOLOSAGE HILLS15915.917%30%

63.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Oklahoma’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $896 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.4 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
22.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$896
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$113,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.41Bottom 27%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate58.7%Bottom 15%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2366,720Top 23%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$35$896Bottom 37%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,566$113,500Bottom 15%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.8%Top 22%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate17.7%Top 31%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
58/ 100
Top 37% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
78
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.1
Bottom 41% nationally
Year over year
+179%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Bartlesville, OK, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 40.3 inches, including 8.2 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 47, in the Good band, and about 9 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BARTLESVILLE F P FLD, 3.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index74.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation40.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall8.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10092024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing46°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
74
90th percentile index
Days above 100
9
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

32 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, cold wave and wildfire.

Ice stormHigh
WildfireElevated
DroughtElevated
Cold waveModerate
Inland floodingHigh

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, tornado, landslide, winter weather, strong wind, lightning, earthquake, hail, hurricane.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Washington County records 4.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 16.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.9 per 100,000 residents in Washington County.

Homicide
4.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Washington County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 74003 rather than 74003 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 38 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tulsa IntlTUL38 mi10,000 ft
Beech FactoryBEC92 mi8,001 ft
Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower NtlICT99 mi10,302 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

74003 vs Bartlesville

How this ZIP area compares with Bartlesville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

74003
Bartlesville
Median household income
$47,168
vs
$58,869
Per capita income
$27,917
vs
$34,969
Population density
108/sq mi
vs
1,680/sq mi
Median home value
$113,500
vs
$167,200
Median gross rent
$896
vs
$916
Homeownership rate
58.7%
vs
68.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.0%
vs
33.3%
Poverty rate
23.6%
vs
17.2%
Median age
35.7
vs
36.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.