City · Bryan County, Oklahoma

Durant, Oklahoma

Durant is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, part of the Durant, OK metro area. It has 19,746 residents. Durant, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,316 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #182 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), average commute time (low) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), grocery stores (low) and uninsured residents (under 65) (high).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,316 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #182 of 237 in OK
Population: 19,746 (2020-2024)
Land area: 28 mi²
Density: 711.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4022050

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety13#13,584/15,637
Economy12#13,776/15,631
Housing71#4,373/14,977
Health6#14,616/15,609
Healthcare4#15,046/15,650
Environment24#11,767/15,453
Education60#6,185/15,649
Infrastructure20#12,582/15,650
Community9#14,313/15,651
Leisure & amenities10#14,023/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Durant, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bryan 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

Mental health providers · high811 /100k
98/100Oklahoma 439 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBryan County value
Average commute time · low17.0 min
95/100Oklahoma 22.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
New homes permitted · high11.3 /1k
90/100Oklahoma 3.6 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Math scores · high3.29
83/100Oklahoma 2.91United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBryan County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.65%
74/100Oklahoma 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Reading scores · high3.17
71/100Oklahoma 2.94United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBryan County value

Weaknesses

Preventable hospital stays · high7,168 /100k
0/100Oklahoma 3,055 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBryan County value
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
2/100Oklahoma 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBryan County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high24.5%
3/100Oklahoma 14.4%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Distance to an emergency room · high18.4 mi
4/100Oklahoma 5.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesBryan County value
Voter turnout · low49.6%
4/100Oklahoma 53.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionBryan County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low37.3%
4/100Oklahoma 70.7%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBryan County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
17,856 (2015-2019) → 19,746 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.6% (2015-2019) → 84.3% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedImproving
7.6 /1k (2021) → 11.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+49%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
25.8% (2015-2019) → 21.1% (2020-2024)
−4.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
13.8 min (2015-2019) → 17.0 min (2020-2024)
+23%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.8% (2015-2019) → 88.2% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Durant, Oklahoma improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved3

Poverty−4.1 points22.7% → 18.7%
Broadband+11 points73.6% → 84.3%
Household income+21%$38,603 → $46,812

Declined1

Commute+3.2 min13.8 min → 17.0 min

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Durant, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	13.8 min2015-2019	17.0 min2020-2024	+3.2 min	Declined	19%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.1%2015-2019	29.2%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Broadband subscriptions	73.6%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	63%
Child poverty rate	25.8%2015-2019	21.1%2020-2024	−4.7 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Effective property tax rate	0.68%2015-2019	0.65%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	83.8%2015-2019	88.2%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	62%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4722015-2019	0.4372020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	77%
Median household income	$38,6032015-2019	$46,8122020-2024	+21%	Improved	36%
Poverty rate	22.7%2015-2019	18.7%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Improved	76%
Rent as share of income	29.0%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Rent-burdened households	48.1%2015-2019	50.8%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Unemployment rate	6.1%2015-2019	4.8%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.4%2015-2019	24.5%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%

“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 Durant, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Durant, 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, Durant, Oklahoma itself moved +0.7 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

19,746 residents (±50)

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

7,678 households (±255)

Durant, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k23%1,767
$25k–50k30%2,297
$50k–75k13%1,025

Homes

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

Owners and renters

7,678 households (±255)

Durant, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own46%3,550
Rent54%4,128

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

8,868 workers (±386)

Durant, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone79%7,034
Carpool8.9%792
Public transit0.0%†4

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 Durant, 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 Bryan County, the county holding most of Durant's residents.

Bryan County has 915 employer establishments, 186 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Oklahoma's), with 12,838 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,420. The Census Bureau also counts 3,564 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 915; 3,564 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 186; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 12,838
Average annual pay: $46,420; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	80	16.2	0.78×Fewer than typical	687	$79,044	140
Restaurants and other eating places	68	13.8	0.75×Fewer than typical	1,132	$18,595	18
Specialty trade contractors	57	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	362	$59,229	359
Religious organizations	39	7.9	1.43×More than typical	289	$22,564	—
Lessors of real estate	37	7.5	0.61×Fewer than typical	46	$44,587	322
Building equipment contractors	35	7.1	1.18×About typical	207	$49,092	76
Limited-service restaurants	31	6.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	626	$17,502	5
Full-service restaurants	29	5.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	446	$20,794	10
Gasoline stations	27	5.5	1.69×More than typical	269	$25,777	3
Insurance agencies and brokerages	24	4.9	1.11×About typical	64	$37,172	73
Banks and credit unions	21	4.3	1.32×More than typical	507	$74,146	—
Truck transportation	21	4.3	0.84×About typical	144	$64,083	104

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 49,268 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 $36.6K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Durant, Oklahoma: $1.86 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $36.6K; +781% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.86; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Departmental Offices$37.4K100%

Top recipients

CHOCTAW MISSION OPERATIONS LLC$37.4K100%
TEKNION LLC$2480.7%
TRI-LOGISTICS LLC-$2900.0%
CHEMTICA USA LLC-$7420.0%

Spending by fiscal year

39.8KFY2017
127.3KFY2018
66.7KFY2019
26.8KFY2020
43.9KFY2021
310.9KFY2022
16.4KFY2023
45.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Business support services · 5614$37.4K100%
Plastics product manufacturing · 3261$3,0148.2%

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

Durant, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Bryan County, OK ($2.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in Bryan 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.

Durant, 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.

Bryan County14100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Durant, OK8

Other cities and towns in Bryan 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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