Claremore, Oklahoma

Area Profile

20,166 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Claremore, in Rogers County.

58out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 42% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2662nd of 3,904 cities measured48
SchoolsTop 39% of 2,668 cities measured60
Growth1683rd of 2,973 cities measured46
Housing affordabilityTop 28% of 4,223 cities measured92
Climate3295th of 4,223 cities measured62
Physical resilience2770th of 4,182 cities measured43
AccessTop 49% of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stability2816th of 4,226 cities measured51
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.1% and median household income $58,685, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published city profiles.

Residential permitting has slowed: 54 units authorized over the past twelve months, 85% below the prior year.

A major airport is 17 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
20,166
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$58,685
Bottom 37% nationally
Density
1,340/sq mi
15.0 sq mi of land
Median age
35.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Rogers County
Oklahoma
Metro area
Tulsa, OK
Nearest major airport
TUL
17 mi · Tulsa Intl
Median home value
$188,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 59% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 2.0% over the past year, to 50,224 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,198$58,685Bottom 37%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,469$32,624Bottom 46%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.1%Top 46%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.9 minBottom 35%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher22.2%Top 46%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment50,224Top 50%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.5%Top 28%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.0%Bottom 18%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force52,395Top 50%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation60.4%Bottom 49%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,070Bottom 12%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,670Bottom 14%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.1%Top 3%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202459k52k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $58,685 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.
Largest occupations — Tulsa, OK
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers12,760$26,460
Retail Salespersons12,110$29,810
General and Operations Managers11,840$96,150
Registered Nurses10,880$84,790
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand9,990$36,980
Customer Service Representatives9,800$38,560

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Rogers County, OK, which contains this city.

27% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
27.5%
Top 40% in Oklahoma
Reading proficiency
28.7%
Top 38% in Oklahoma
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
CLAREMORE HSCLAREMORE1,34918.0
WILL ROGERS JHSCLAREMORE79214.727%32%
SEQUOYAH ESSEQUOYAH63717.237%32%
WESTSIDE ESCLAREMORE50113.222%22%
CLAREMONT ESCLAREMORE39113.527%29%
ROOSA ESCLAREMORE37613.432%23%
SEQUOYAH HSSEQUOYAH36613.1
SEQUOYAH MSSEQUOYAH28414.212%32%

54.3% 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 $1,009 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
20.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,009
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$188,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.22Top 42%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate53.2%Bottom 12%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2508,493Top 7%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$32$1,009Top 47%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,035$188,700Top 50%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.6%Top 37%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.8%Bottom 37%of 32,0012024 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
46/ 100
Ranks 1683 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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.

Population has grown 5% since 2020, reaching 20,602 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

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

At 2.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
54
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.7
Top 46% nationally
Year over year
−85%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202421k20k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202220232024202534298
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+116%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 28°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.0 inches, including 8.7 inches of snow.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TULSA INTL AP, 17.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation41.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall8.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

43 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Ice stormHigh
WildfireModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Inland floodingElevated
Cold waveModerate
DroughtModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Rogers County records 11.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 56.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 44.9 per 100,000 residents in Rogers County.

Homicide
11.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
56.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
44.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
62.8
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 Rogers 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 Claremore rather than Claremore 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 and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 17 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tulsa IntlTUL17 mi10,000 ft
Northwest Arkansas NtlXNA73 mi8,801 ft
Fort Smith RgnlFSM97 mi9,318 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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Other cities in Tulsa, OK

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
TulsaTulsa County413,79453vs Claremore
Broken ArrowTulsa County118,18067vs Claremore
OwassoTulsa County40,15166vs Claremore
BixbyTulsa County30,15572vs Claremore
JenksTulsa County27,10270vs Claremore
SapulpaCreek County22,57062vs Claremore
Sand SpringsTulsa County20,11757vs Claremore
GlenpoolTulsa County14,15163vs Claremore
OkmulgeeOkmulgee County11,34842vs Claremore
CowetaWagoner County10,43358vs Claremore

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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

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.

ZIP codes in Claremore

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7401729,206$65,36859