SlaughtervilleOK
A town of 4,332, settled in 1980.
Is Slaughterville a good place to live?
Slaughterville gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $236K for a typical one, or 3.3 years of the Oklahoma City metro’s $72K median household income. It grades C− overall, ranked 81st of 131 in Oklahoma. The low prices come with trade-offs. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 86% of the country, and FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 79% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On walkability, just 6 of Oklahoma’s 227 towns do worse.
What makes Slaughterville stand out
Where Slaughterville beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Slaughterville for work
Where Slaughterville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Slaughterville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Oklahoma), ordered by how far Slaughterville is from typical.
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Moving to Slaughterville: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Slaughterville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Slaughterville.
Slaughterville trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, looks healthier within Oklahoma than nationally and sends most of its workers to Oklahoma City and beyond.
Slaughterville’s grade for health is a D
Within Oklahoma it is less healthy than 58% of the 131 graded towns: much of Oklahoma scores lower on these measures.
40% of adults have high blood pressure in Slaughterville, where Oklahoma’s towns sit at 40% and U.S. towns at 35%. For adults here, the share who binge drink is 13%. Among adults in the town, 28% have been diagnosed with depression and 19% smoke cigarettes.
| Slaughterville | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 25% |
| What stands out | Slaughterville | OK |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 8% |
| More smokers | 19.2% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Slaughterville has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
The national flood insurance program has paid 6 claims in Slaughterville since 2015. In Slaughterville, the FEMA hazard score is 79 of 100, above both the Oklahoma town median (61 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100). Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 37% come from inland flooding and 15% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The average trip to work in Slaughterville is longer than in most of Oklahoma or the rest of the country
Slaughterville has 161 jobs for its 1,457 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 30.9 minutes, against 22.4 across Oklahoma.
Employers in Slaughterville added 52 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 161. Slaughterville: 1.9% of working residents work locally. The top destinations are Oklahoma City (30%), Norman (21%) and Noble (8%).
| Slaughterville | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 22% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 18% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $73,000 | $55,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Slaughterville: mild winters and hot summers
The range runs from 28° on a January night to 93° on a July afternoon, with about 4 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Slaughterville’s grade for cost of living is an A−
Homes are within reach (about $236K for the typical one, A− for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 21 miles.
Homes in Slaughterville are typically worth about $236,000, up 2.2% in a year, 7% above the Oklahoma typical home. 81% of households own their home here. The town’s typical rent comes in at $1,014 a month.
| Slaughterville | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 62% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,014 a month | $870 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lexington State Wildlife Management Area | — | 8 |
| 2. Slaughterville Park | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and 20 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Slaughterville. Close and well known come first.
12 mi Stadium & arenaGaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
29 mi MuseumOklahoma City National Memorial419K visitors a year35 mi Theme parkFrontier City
33 mi MuseumNational Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
21 mi MuseumMuseum of Osteology31 mi Zoo & aquariumOklahoma City Zoo and Botanical GardenPhoto credits
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium: Toniklemm, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oklahoma City National Memorial: User:Dual Freq, CC BY 2.5 · National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Museum of Osteology: SkeletonsRCool, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Slaughterville
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Slaughterville
About 2 of every 100 Slaughterville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Oklahoma.
About Slaughterville
Town in Oklahoma, US
Slaughterville is a town in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and located in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 4,163, a 0.6% increase from 2010. The community is made up of mostly homes on acreages so it has retained a rural type of land use. Much of the area is wooded and has a natural scenic outdoor appeal to residents and visitors.
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- Area
- 39 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,119 ft
- Area code
- 405
Slaughterville’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Slaughterville.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its C−; Purcell (C) is closest.
| Town | OK rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slaughterville | #81 | C− | A− | — | B | D |
| Purcell | #58 | C | B+ | C− | B+ | C− |
| Noble | #27 | B− | B+ | B− | B | C |
| Norman | #48 | C+ | C | C | B | B |
Slaughterville reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Slaughterville with a neighbor →
Questions about Slaughterville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Slaughterville, OK a good place to live?
Slaughterville grades C− overall, better than 21% of U.S. towns and #81 of 131 in Oklahoma. It grades D for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Slaughterville, OK expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.