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Oklahoma

Oklahoma has a quality of life score of 36/100 (D, below average) and ranks #42 of 51 states. Its strongest category is cost of living (73) and its weakest is education (17). Its top-rated larger counties are Canadian County, Kingfisher County, Cleveland County.

  • Safety: 25
  • Cost of living: 73
  • Education: 17
  • Quality of life: 28

Key figures: violent crime 418.1 per 100,000 people a year (US 345.2); median rent $1,014 a month; median home value $199,800; median household income $62,120; life expectancy 73.7 years.

Counties in Oklahoma, best first

  1. Harper County 74
  2. Roger Mills County 66
  3. Canadian County 63
  4. Cimarron County 61
  5. Kingfisher County 59
  6. Cleveland County 58
  7. Custer County 58
  8. Rogers County 57
  9. Woods County 57
  10. Payne County 56
  11. Jackson County 56
  12. Beaver County 56
  13. Alfalfa County 55
  14. Major County 55
  15. Grant County 54
  16. Wagoner County 54
  17. Noble County 54
  18. Texas County 53
  19. Grady County 53
  20. Washita County 52
  21. McClain County 52
  22. Dewey County 52
  23. Woodward County 51
  24. Greer County 50
  25. Harmon County 50
  26. Logan County 50
  27. Pontotoc County 49
  28. Washington County 48
  29. Garfield County 48
  30. Bryan County 48
  31. Beckham County 47
  32. Murray County 47
  33. Ellis County 47
  34. Kay County 46
  35. Cotton County 45
  36. Lincoln County 45
  37. Sequoyah County 45
  38. Stephens County 45
  39. Creek County 45
  40. Caddo County 45
  41. Tulsa County 44
  42. Comanche County 44
  43. Coal County 44
  44. Marshall County 43
  45. Nowata County 43
  46. Garvin County 43
  47. Kiowa County 42
  48. Blaine County 42
  49. Atoka County 42
  50. Osage County 42
  51. Mayes County 41
  52. Oklahoma County 41
  53. Love County 41
  54. Cherokee County 41
  55. Jefferson County 40
  56. Pottawatomie County 40
  57. Carter County 40
  58. Johnston County 38
  59. Haskell County 38
  60. Pittsburg County 38
  61. Le Flore County 38
  62. Latimer County 37
  63. McCurtain County 37
  64. Pawnee County 37
  65. Ottawa County 36
  66. Muskogee County 36
  67. Delaware County 35
  68. Tillman County 35
  69. Hughes County 35
  70. Craig County 33
  71. Okmulgee County 32
  72. Adair County 32
  73. Okfuskee County 31
  74. Pushmataha County 31
  75. Seminole County 30
  76. McIntosh County 30
  77. Choctaw County 26

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About the data

Every county is compared with every other US county, and every state with the other states.

Each measure becomes a percentile from 0 to 100, where 100 is always best. For crime, deaths, disaster risk, costs and commutes, the lowest value is best. A category score averages its measures’ percentiles and is then scaled so all four categories have the same spread around 50, so each counts equally. The overall score is the average of the four. 50 is a typical place, and most land between 35 and 65. Your priorities lets you weight the categories differently.

Grades: A 65 and up, B 55–64, C 45–54, D 35–44, F under 35.

Each category lists a county’s own figures next to its state’s and the US figures. Under the state and US columns, Difference shows whether the county is higher or lower, as a share of that figure (hover for the exact gap). Rank shows where it ranks instead: “ranked 75%” means it does better than 75% of the counties in its state, or in the US. A green arrow or dot means the county does better, red means worse.

Compare puts any two places side by side, counties or states, in any state. The better value in each row is highlighted.

A county gets an overall score only if all four categories have data and at least 60% of the measures are present. Small counties often have suppressed data, and without this rule they rank at the top on just a few numbers. Top 10 lists only include counties with at least 10,000 people.

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