Miami, Oklahoma

Area Profile

12,926 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Miami, in Ottawa County.

47out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 8% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3640th of 3,904 cities measured30
Schools1722nd of 2,668 cities measured40
GrowthTop 49% of 2,973 cities measured51
Housing affordabilityTop 28% of 4,223 cities measured92
Climate2655th of 4,223 cities measured66
Physical resilience3727th of 4,182 cities measured17
Access3708th of 4,226 cities measured70
Economic stability3996th of 4,226 cities measured28
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.9% and the Opportunity signal places Miami in the bottom 7%.

In the public schools here, 27% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 19.4 students for every teacher.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, drought and ice storm.

At a glance

Population
12,926
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$46,410
Bottom 18% nationally
Density
1,165/sq mi
11.1 sq mi of land
Median age
32.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Ottawa County
Oklahoma
Metro area
Miami, OK
Nearest major airport
XNA
52 mi · Northwest Arkansas Ntl
Median home value
$107,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.9% is lower than 28% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.6% over the past year, to 13,512 employed residents.

Median household income of $46,410 is below 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$2,934$46,410Bottom 18%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$941$22,662Bottom 14%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate22.6%Top 19%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.3 minBottom 15%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher15.5%Bottom 36%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,512Bottom 10%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.5%Bottom 44%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.6%Bottom 31%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force14,208Bottom 10%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation54.3%Bottom 31%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.9%Top 6%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.9%Top 28%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202446k39k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $46,410 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Ottawa County, OK, which contains this city.

27% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 25% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
26.6%
Top 48% in Oklahoma
Reading proficiency
24.5%
Bottom 38% in Oklahoma
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
MIAMI HSMIAMI45915.3
NICHOLS UPPER ESMIAMI45419.724%25%
MIAMI JR HSMIAMI39622.0
WILSON ESMIAMI25022.7
WASHINGTON ESMIAMI23117.822%22%
ROOSEVELT ESMIAMI20725.937%27%

74.6% 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 $835 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.3 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
21.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$835
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$107,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.32Bottom 32%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate55.6%Bottom 15%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1385,696Top 10%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$26$835Bottom 33%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$4,205$107,600Bottom 22%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.6%Top 32%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate13.2%Top 39%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
51/ 100
Top 49% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2022 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 fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 12,886 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 1.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
14
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.1
Bottom 33% nationally
Year over year
+75%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202413k13k
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
2022202320242025131.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+1200%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 24°F.

Air quality measures a median index of 51, in the Moderate band, and one day a year passes 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 MIAMI, 0.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index70.02024 calendar year
Average January low24°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index51.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
51
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
70
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
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

17 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Ice stormHigh
DroughtElevated
Heat waveModerate
Inland floodingHigh
TornadoModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Cold waveElevated
EarthquakeModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, landslide, wildfire, hail, lightning, 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.

Ottawa 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 19.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.8 per 100,000 residents in Ottawa County.

Homicide
4.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
19.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
36.3
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 Ottawa 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 Miami rather than Miami 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 52 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Northwest Arkansas NtlXNA52 mi8,801 ft
Tulsa IntlTUL74 mi10,000 ft
Springfield-Branson NtlSGF85 mi8,000 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.

ZIP codes in Miami

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7435417,208$50,81847