ToppersOK
A town of 1,029.
Is Toppers a good place to live?
Toppers’ best subject grade is an A+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for walkability. Toppers’ average trip to work is 34 minutes, against 22 minutes in Oklahoma’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. On walkability, just 5 of Oklahoma’s 227 towns do worse. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 86% of the country. The biggest park or preserve is Fort GIbson Wildlife Management Area, at 474 acres. Toppers has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,029 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Toppers grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Oklahoma), ordered by how far Toppers is from typical.
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Moving to Toppers: who provides what
Toppers is unincorporated, so Wagoner County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Toppers.
Toppers earns a D for health
46% of adults have high blood pressure in Toppers, above both Oklahoma’s towns (40%) and U.S. towns (35%). 16% of Toppers adults have diabetes. Toppers beats the Oklahoma average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9.
| Toppers | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 40% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 12% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 16% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 14% |
| What stands out | Toppers | OK |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 80.8% | 76.3% |
| More adults getting cholesterol checked | 86.5% | 84.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 11.1% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Toppers’ workers commute out
23% of residents live below the poverty line in Toppers. The top destinations are Wagoner (21%), Tulsa (18%) and Muskogee (14%). The median household income in Toppers is $52,000.
| Toppers | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 18% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $52,000 | $55,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Toppers stands out in Oklahoma and nationally: the median age there is higher
Toppers’ median age is 45.8 years. Among 132 Oklahoma towns, just 10 have a lower share of children under 18 than Toppers. 27% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 28% across Oklahoma.
| Toppers | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 45.8 years | 36.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 20% | 25% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 27% | 20% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 47% and 70% women
The Census survey reached too few of Toppers’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.5 points. Across Oklahoma, 50.2% of residents are women.
| Toppers | OK | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.4% | 12.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.4% | 11.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4.6% | 9.8% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.7% | 13.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.4% | 13.2% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.4% | 11.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.3% | 11.9% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.3% | 9.7% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 19.7% | 6.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 13.2% | 10.6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33% | 30.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.7% | 22.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5.6% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 14% | 18.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.5% | 9.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,000, single groups can be off by several points
In Toppers, expect mild winters and hot summers
Toppers has chilly winters and hot summers. July afternoons reach 93°, January nights drop to 27° and about 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Toppers
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 65% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.3% of Toppers is conserved land
1.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Among 114 Oklahoma towns, just 5 have a lower share of conserved land than Toppers.
| Toppers | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.3% | 6.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Fort GIbson Wildlife Management Area | — | 474 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Toppers sells for about $195K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
USS Batfish and 24 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Toppers. Close and well known come first.
12 mi MuseumUSS Batfish
40 mi Stadium & arenaBOK Center
37 mi Stadium & arenaSkelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium
12 mi LandmarkFort Gibson
39 mi MuseumThe Outsiders House Museum
38 mi MuseumPhilbrook Museum of ArtPhoto credits
USS Batfish: Blackwing.1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · BOK Center: Okiefromokla, Public domain · Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium: Chippothenut, CC BY 3.0 · Fort Gibson: Fred Q. Casler, Photographer, Public domain · The Outsiders House Museum: TheDoctorWho, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Philbrook Museum of Art: Dustin M. Ramsey, aka Kralizec! at English Wikipedia. Cropped by CPacker., Attribution
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Everything we know about Toppers
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Toppers
About 4 of every 100 Toppers residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Oklahoma.
100% of working residents leave Toppers for work
Where Toppers’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Toppers
Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States
Toppers is an unincorporated community in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States, situated on Fort Gibson Lake. As of the 2020 census, Toppers had a population of 911.
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- Elevation
- 607 ft
Questions about Toppers
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Toppers, OK expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $105,000, 52% below the Oklahoma typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.