TurleyOK
This town of 2,968 people was settled in 1897.
Is Turley a good place to live?
Turley grades low on several counts. The weak point is health (D−): on CDC estimates, its residents' health ranks in the bottom 2% nationally. The town’s overall grade of D− puts it better than 3% of U.S. towns, 129th of 131 in Oklahoma. Schools are weaker too (D): its public schools trail 94% of Oklahoma towns on state tests and graduation. Its strongest subject is cost of living: a typical home costs about $97K, 1.4 years of the Tulsa metro’s $69K median household income. The biggest park or preserve is O'Brien Park, at 113 acres.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · OpenStreetMap.
97% of working residents leave Turley for work
Where Turley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Turley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Oklahoma), ordered by how far Turley is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
BOK Center and 18 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Turley. Close and well known come first.
7 mi Stadium & arenaBOK Center
7 mi Stadium & arenaSkelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium
6 mi MuseumThe Outsiders House Museum
9 mi MuseumPhilbrook Museum of Art8 mi Theme parkBell's Amusement Park3 mi Zoo & aquariumTulsa Zoo600K visitors a yearPhoto credits
BOK Center: Okiefromokla, Public domain · Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium: Chippothenut, CC BY 3.0 · 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
Moving to Turley: who provides what
Turley is unincorporated, so Tulsa 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 Turley.
Turley has homes that are cheap against local pay and sends most of its workers to Tulsa and beyond.
More of Turley’s adults worry about having enough food than in the typical Oklahoma or U.S. town
The share of adults in Turley who report frequent physical distress is 20%, against 16% in Oklahoma’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. Among adults in the town, 25% smoke cigarettes. Only one of the 131 Oklahoma towns we compare has a lower share of adults who binge drink than Turley. The town does better than the Oklahoma average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 22.
| Turley | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 23% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 18% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Turley | OK |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 11% | 14% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 79.8% | 76.3% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 30.6% | 16.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Turley’s grade for cost of living is a B+
At 1.4 years of the Tulsa metro’s $69K median household income, the typical home (about $97K) costs less against local pay than in 96% of Oklahoma towns; that ratio is one input to that grade. The median property tax bill is $440, against $1,599 across Oklahoma, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Home values are up 3.3% over the year to September 2026. The rent at the middle of the market for Turley comes to $1,092 a month, where Oklahoma’s towns sit at $870 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. The share of households in Turley who are owner-occupiers: 68%.
| Turley | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 68% | 62% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,092 a month | $870 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Conserved land covers 5.6% of Turley
Walkers can cover 1.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The concentration of trails for Turley comes to 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Turley | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 5.6% | 7% | 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. O'Brien Park | 0.9 mi | 113 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About half of Turley’s working residents commute to Tulsa
Turley has 255 jobs for its 941 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here fell from 385 in 2013 to 255.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 11 miles. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Turley dropped by 130, to 255. For most workers, Turley is a place to come home to: only 3% work in town. Also worth knowing: in Turley, just over a fifth of residents live below the poverty line.
| Turley | Oklahoma towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 22% | 18% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.8% | 22% | 8% |
| Median household income | $42,000 | $55,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and hot summers: that is Turley’s year
July afternoons reach 93°, January nights drop to 26° and about 9 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a high hazard risk in Turley: inland flooding
Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in 64% of U.S. communities. 48% of Turley’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by heat waves at 27%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Turley
Colleges nearby
9 within 15 miles of the center of Turley
About 2 of every 100 Turley residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Oklahoma.
About Turley
CDP in Oklahoma, United States
Turley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,607 at the time of the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 636 ft
Turley’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Turley.
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Questions about Turley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Turley, OK a good place to live?
Turley grades D− overall, better than 3% of U.S. towns and #129 of 131 in Oklahoma. It grades D− for health and D for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Turley, 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 B+.