Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety38#9,627/15,637
Economy6#14,717/15,631
Housing90#1,547/14,977
Health13#13,630/15,609
Healthcare8#14,351/15,650
Environment8#14,255/15,453
Education7#14,545/15,649
Infrastructure9#14,316/15,650
Community10#14,036/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,676/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Boley, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Okfuskee County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Time spent in the emergency room · low87 min
99/100Oklahoma 122 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesOkfuskee County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Oklahoma 19.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOkfuskee County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Oklahoma 6.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOkfuskee County value
Job growth · high2.8%
93/100Oklahoma 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataOkfuskee County value
Average commute time · low11.1 min
92/100Oklahoma 22.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013High uncertainty
Home price to income ratio · low1.9×
90/100Oklahoma 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Median household income · low$26,250
1/100Oklahoma $66,124United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Dentists · low9 /100k
1/100Oklahoma 65 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOkfuskee County value
Primary care physicians · low9 /100k
1/100Oklahoma 60 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOkfuskee County value
Poverty rate · high53.4%
1/100Oklahoma 14.8%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Average weekly wage · low$827
1/100Oklahoma $1,173United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOkfuskee County value
Voter turnout · low46.4%
2/100Oklahoma 53.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionOkfuskee County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateWorsening
28.9% (2015-2019) → 59.5% (2020-2024)
+31 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
51.0% (2015-2019) → 32.1% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
High school diploma or higherImproving
68.4% (2015-2019) → 82.8% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
16.3% (2015-2019) → 26.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioImproving
3.4× (2015-2019) → 1.9× (2020-2024)
−45%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Average commute timeImproving
15.6 min (2015-2019) → 11.1 min (2020-2024)
−29%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Boley, Oklahoma improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Rent / income−19 points51.0% → 32.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Boley, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	48.8%2015-2019	54.2%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	68.4%2015-2019	82.8%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5242015-2019	0.4272020-2024	−0.098	Within the margin of error	95%
Poverty rate	58.5%2015-2019	53.4%2020-2024	−5 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	32.1%2020-2024	−19 points	Improved	98%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	16.3%2015-2019	26.9%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	3%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Boley, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Boley, Oklahoma in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Boley, Oklahoma five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Boley, Oklahoma itself moved +20.6 points in standing on average over the same 4 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,209 residents (±100)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under 10 women (−1.6 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,209 residents (±100)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

White44%527
Black28%334
Hispanic or Latino6.4%†77

Education

1,050 residents (±121)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

No high school diploma17%†181
High school or GED47%498
Some college23%†241

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

107 households (±30)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k50%†53
$25k–50k27%†29
$50k–75k12%†13
$75k–100k9.3%†10
$100k–150k1.9%†2
$150k–200k0.0%0
$200k or more0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

107 households (±30)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own78%†83
Rent22%†24

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+22.8 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

18 households (±14)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $75083%†15
$750–1,00017%†3
$1,000–1,5000.0%0

Home values

83 homes (±26)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $150k82%†68
$150k–250k18%†15
$250k–400k0.0%0

Age of homes

131 homes (±29)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

2010 or later0.8%†1
2000–200934%†44
1980–199921%†27

Size of homes

131 homes (±29)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Studio3.8%†5
1 bedroom4.6%†6
2 bedrooms43%†56

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

128 workers (±89)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone66%†84
Carpool4.7%†6
Public transit0.0%0
Walk24%†31
Bike0.0%0
Work from home5.5%†7
Other0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

121 workers (±88)

Boley, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under 15 min81%†98
15–29 min7.4%†9
30–44 min8.3%†10

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Okfuskee County, the county holding most of Boley's residents.

Okfuskee County has 159 employer establishments, 141 for every 10,000 residents (0.57× the US rate of 248; 0.59× Oklahoma's), with 1,868 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,010. The Census Bureau also counts 755 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 159; 755 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 141; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 1,868
Average annual pay: $41,010; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Okfuskee County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	13	11.5	0.63×Fewer than typical	132	$16,348	9
Specialty trade contractors	12	10.6	0.69×Fewer than typical	45	$54,956	93
Religious organizations	10	8.9	1.60×More than typical	32	$16,406	—
Ambulatory health care services	6	5.3	0.26×Too few to compare	70	$43,400	11
Full-service restaurants	6	5.3	0.69×Too few to compare	50	$13,560	6
Insurance agencies and brokerages	6	5.3	1.21×Too few to compare	6	$58,000	11
Limited-service restaurants	6	5.3	0.66×Too few to compare	77	$18,974	—
Truck transportation	6	5.3	1.05×Too few to compare	14	$61,214	39
Building equipment contractors	5	4.4	0.74×Too few to compare	15	$39,333	19
Gasoline stations	5	4.4	1.37×Too few to compare	70	$24,629	4
Other specialty trade contractors	5	4.4	1.77×Too few to compare	28	$64,357	32
General merchandise stores	4	3.5	2.01×Too few to compare	36	$20,000	12

Rank places for an industry Open Okfuskee County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 11,277 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Boley, Oklahoma: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

145.8FY2017
-16FY2018
0FY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Boley, Oklahoma, so they do not add up across cities.

Boley, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Okfuskee County, OK ($13K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Boley is mostly in Okfuskee County.

See federal money in Okfuskee County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Boley, Oklahoma is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Josh BrecheenR-OK-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 4.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Okfuskee County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Okfuskee County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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