73096Weatherford, Oklahoma

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 73096.

62out of 100
Area Score
Top 41% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 31% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured64
SchoolsTop 38% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured61
GrowthTop 36% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured58
Housing affordabilityTop 39% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured86
Climate5863rd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured60
Physical resilience4462nd of 6,709 ZIP areas measured43
Access4758th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured86
Economic stability4223rd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured53
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.8% and median household income $59,138, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

In the public schools here, 34% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.8 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 16% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.2 times that income.

At a glance

Population
14,364
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$59,138
Bottom 28% nationally
Density
74/sq mi
193.1 sq mi of land
Median age
28.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Weatherford
Oklahoma
Metro area
Weatherford, OK
Nearest major airport
CSM
29 mi · Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport
Median home value
$248,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.8% is lower than 74% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.7% over the past year, to 15,308 employed residents.

42% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 81% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,113$59,138Bottom 28%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,861$34,501Bottom 43%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.4%Top 24%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.1 minBottom 11%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher41.9%Top 19%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment15,308Bottom 11%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.4%Top 12%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.7%Top 47%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force15,918Bottom 11%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation71.2%Top 12%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.9%Top 8%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.8%Bottom 26%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202459k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $59,138 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 Weatherford, OK, the city containing this ZIP code.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 25% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.1%
Top 20% in Oklahoma
Reading proficiency
25.2%
Top 50% in Oklahoma
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
WEATHERFORD HSWEATHERFORD65717.8
General Thomas P Stafford ElementaryWEATHERFORD55817.447%27%
East Intermediate SchoolWEATHERFORD36517.4
BURCHAM ESWEATHERFORD36215.1
WEATHERFORD MSWEATHERFORD32615.512%22%

50.4% 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 $808 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$808
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$248,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.20Top 25%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate48.8%Bottom 9%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2736,661Top 23%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$71$808Bottom 25%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,249$248,600Top 42%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.4%Bottom 41%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate11.3%Top 49%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 36% 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 2.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
35
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.9
Top 49% nationally
Year over year
+25%
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 Weatherford, OK, the city containing this ZIP code.

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 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 30.1 inches, including 5.7 inches of snow.

10°30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WEATHERFORD, 1.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation30.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall5.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°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 tornado, cold wave and ice storm.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 70% of measured US ZIP areas.

Ice stormElevated
DroughtElevated
HailElevated
TornadoModerate
Strong windElevated
WildfireModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Cold waveElevated
EarthquakeModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, landslide, inland flooding, 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.

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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 29 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Infinity One Oklahoma SpaceportCSM29 mi13,503 ft
OKC Will Rogers IntlOKC64 mi9,802 ft
Lawton-Fort Sill RgnlLAW68 mi8,599 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

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.

73096 vs Weatherford

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

73096
Weatherford
Median household income
$59,138
vs
$54,704
Per capita income
$34,501
vs
$32,644
Population density
74/sq mi
vs
1,566/sq mi
Median home value
$248,600
vs
$232,600
Median gross rent
$808
vs
$804
Homeownership rate
48.8%
vs
42.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
41.9%
vs
40.9%
Poverty rate
17.4%
vs
20.3%
Median age
28.7
vs
26.8

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.