City · Pawnee County, Oklahoma

Cleveland, Oklahoma

Cleveland is a city in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, part of the Tulsa, OK metro area. It has 3,225 residents. Cleveland, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,214 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #177 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), home price to income ratio (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), restaurants and bars (low) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,214 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #177 of 237 in OK
Population: 3,225 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,201.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4015350

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

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

Safety31#10,769/15,637
Economy13#13,647/15,631
Housing90#1,554/14,977
Health9#14,240/15,609
Healthcare18#12,899/15,650
Environment8#14,284/15,453
Education13#13,559/15,649
Infrastructure23#12,097/15,650
Community21#12,393/15,651
Leisure & amenities11#13,967/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Cleveland, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pawnee 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 · low78 min
99/100Oklahoma 122 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPawnee County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.1×
89/100Oklahoma 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
81/100Oklahoma 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPawnee County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.379
80/100Oklahoma 0.467United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Effective property tax rate · low0.61%
79/100Oklahoma 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Rent as share of income · low27.8%
78/100Oklahoma 28.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low33.5%
3/100Oklahoma 70.7%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePawnee County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.7 /10k
4/100Oklahoma 8.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPawnee County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.3 /10k
4/100Oklahoma 3.7 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPawnee County value
Life expectancy · low71.4 yrs
6/100Oklahoma 74.0 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePawnee County value
Average weekly wage · low$905
6/100Oklahoma $1,173United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPawnee County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100Oklahoma 7.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationPawnee County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.1% (2015-2019) → 85.6% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
22.4% (2015-2019) → 12.7% (2020-2024)
−9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Median household incomeImproving
$42,071 (2015-2019) → $55,357 (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
39.1% (2015-2019) → 44.1% (2020-2024)
+5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.3% (2015-2019) → 27.8% (2020-2024)
+4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.457 (2015-2019) → 0.379 (2020-2024)
−17%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Cleveland, Oklahoma improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved3

Uninsured−9.7 points22.4% → 12.7%
Broadband+14 points71.1% → 85.6%
Household income+32%$42,071 → $55,357

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Cleveland, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.4 min2015-2019	22.6 min2020-2024	−1.8 min	Within the margin of error	68%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.3%2015-2019	17.7%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	71.1%2015-2019	85.6%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	78%
Child poverty rate	21.1%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Effective property tax rate	0.90%2015-2019	0.61%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	74%
High school diploma or higher	89.4%2015-2019	87.8%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	76%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4572015-2019	0.3792020-2024	−0.078	Within the margin of error	92%
Median household income	$42,0712015-2019	$55,3572020-2024	+32%	Improved	59%
Poverty rate	17.5%2015-2019	20.3%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Rent as share of income	23.3%2015-2019	27.8%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Rent-burdened households	39.1%2015-2019	44.1%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Unemployment rate	2.0%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	22.4%2015-2019	12.7%2020-2024	−9.7 points	Improved	96%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 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 Cleveland, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cleveland, 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.

For comparison, Cleveland, Oklahoma itself moved +3.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

3,225 residents (±18)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

1,318 households (±91)

Cleveland, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k20%262
$25k–50k26%348
$50k–75k27%355

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,318 households (±91)

Cleveland, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own65%860
Rent35%458

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,398 workers (±136)

Cleveland, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone80%1,118
Carpool8.3%†116
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Tulsa, OK

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 Pawnee County, the county holding most of Cleveland's residents.

Pawnee County has 263 employer establishments, 166 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.70× Oklahoma's), with 2,972 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,867. The Census Bureau also counts 1,058 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 263; 1,058 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 166; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 2,972
Average annual pay: $52,867; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	23	14.5	0.94×About typical	88	$45,648	132
Ambulatory health care services	21	13.2	0.63×Fewer than typical	135	$48,896	27
Restaurants and other eating places	21	13.2	0.72×Fewer than typical	342	$13,798	12
Building equipment contractors	16	10.1	1.68×More than typical	60	$47,683	24
Religious organizations	14	8.8	1.59×More than typical	56	$17,196	—
Limited-service restaurants	10	6.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	235	$11,728	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	9	5.7	1.29×Too few to compare	26	$37,615	11
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	9	5.7	1.72×Too few to compare	25	$54,760	10
Gasoline stations	8	5	1.55×Too few to compare	54	$45,444	—
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	6	3.8	1.53×Too few to compare	22	$29,591	11
Full-service restaurants	6	3.8	0.49×Too few to compare	91	$19,297	7
Offices of physicians	6	3.8	0.58×Too few to compare	20	$56,550	4

Rank places for an industry Open Pawnee County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 15,871 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 $8,482 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Cleveland, Oklahoma: $2.63 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $8,482; −29% vs FY2025
Per resident: $2.63; US $1,994
Sole-source: 11%; US 30%
Single offer: 81%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$6,27974%
Department of the Army$1,76921%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$5306.3%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

4.9KFY2017
-31.7FY2018
2.9KFY2019
-35.6FY2020
917.9FY2021
2KFY2022
946.1FY2023
11.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$6,27974%
RV parks and recreational camps · 7212$1,37216%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$5306.3%
Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$3964.7%

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 Cleveland, Oklahoma, so they do not add up across cities.

Cleveland, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Pawnee County, OK ($6M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Pawnee 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.

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

House

Frank D. LucasR-OK-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.6%

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.

Pawnee County9100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tulsa, OK42

Other cities and towns in Pawnee 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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