Jenks, Oklahoma

Area Profile

27,102 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Jenks, in Tulsa County.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 18% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 37% of 3,904 published cities62
SchoolsTop 23% of 2,668 published cities73
GrowthTop 18% of 2,973 published cities69
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
Climate3395th of 4,223 published cities62
Physical resilience2126th of 4,182 published cities57
Access2156th of 4,226 published cities92
Economic stabilityTop 26% of 4,226 published cities72
The quick read

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 118 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 23% on the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.9 times it.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
27,102
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$111,004
Top 14% nationally
Density
1,561/sq mi
17.4 sq mi of land
Median age
34.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Tulsa County
Oklahoma
Metro area
Tulsa, OK
Nearest major airport
TUL
15 mi · Tulsa Intl
Median home value
$327,100
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 13,847 employed residents.

51% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 89% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 86% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,394$111,004Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,827$45,641Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.8%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.2 minBottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher50.6%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,847Bottom 11%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.1%Top 33%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.0%Bottom 19%June 2026
Labor force14,440Bottom 11%June 2026
Labor force participation70.2%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,070Bottom 12%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,670Bottom 14%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.2%Top 2%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.72.1
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.1% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024111k92k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $111,004 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.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 33% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
32.6%
Top 18% in Oklahoma
Reading proficiency
32.8%
Top 18% in Oklahoma
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
JENKS HSJENKS3,65518.5
JENKS MSJENKS1,92418.216%35%
JENKS WEST ESJENKS1,87116.047%35%
JENKS EAST ESJENKS1,35615.230%20%
JENKS WEST INTERMEDIATE ESJENKS1,13016.641%41%

50.5% 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 $1,602 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,602
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$327,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.95Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate77.5%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3269,632Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$88$1,602Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,178$327,100Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.3%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.0%Bottom 38%2024 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
69/ 100
Top 18% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, 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 7% since 2020, reaching 27,869 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

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

At 4.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
118
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.4
Top 33% nationally
Year over year
+23%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202428k26k
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
2020202220232024202525166
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−49%).

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 42.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 51, in the Moderate band, and about 8 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TULSA R L JONES JR AP, 2.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index74.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation42.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10082024 calendar year
Median air quality index51.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
51
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
74
90th percentile index
Days above 100
8
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

57 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, strong wind and hail.

Ice stormModerate
Strong windElevated
HailModerate
Inland floodingModerate
LightningModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, tornado, cold wave, wildfire, earthquake, winter weather, landslide, 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.

Tulsa County records 4.8 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 10.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 20.4 per 100,000 residents in Tulsa County.

Homicide
4.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
20.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.5
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 Tulsa 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 Jenks rather than Jenks 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. 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.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tulsa IntlTUL15 mi10,000 ft
Northwest Arkansas NtlXNA95 mi8,801 ft
OKC Will Rogers IntlOKC100 mi9,802 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 Jenks
Broken ArrowTulsa County118,18067vs Jenks
OwassoTulsa County40,15166vs Jenks
BixbyTulsa County30,15572vs Jenks
SapulpaCreek County22,57062vs Jenks
ClaremoreRogers County20,16658vs Jenks
Sand SpringsTulsa County20,11757vs Jenks
GlenpoolTulsa County14,15163vs Jenks
OkmulgeeOkmulgee County11,34842vs Jenks
CowetaWagoner County10,43358vs Jenks

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.

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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
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
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.

ZIP codes in Jenks

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7403724,547$103,94270