Town · Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Haskell, Oklahoma

Haskell is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, part of the Muskogee, OK metro area. It has 1,549 residents. Haskell, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 5 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,923 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #206 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), hospital quality rating (high) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), median household income (low) and life expectancy (low).

5Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,923 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #206 of 237 in OK
Population: 1,549 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 307.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4032900

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety5#14,902/15,637
Economy5#14,903/15,631
Housing77#3,513/14,977
Health5#14,756/15,609
Healthcare15#13,287/15,650
Environment14#13,317/15,453
Education19#12,690/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,764/15,650
Community14#13,460/15,651
Leisure & amenities30#11,021/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Haskell, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Muskogee 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 · high509 /100k
87/100Oklahoma 439 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMuskogee County value
Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100Oklahoma 3.3United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMuskogee County value
Rent as share of income · low29.8%
72/100Oklahoma 28.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Effective property tax rate · low0.68%
72/100Oklahoma 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Rent-burdened households · low49.7%
71/100Oklahoma 46.3%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
New homes permitted · high3.2 /1k
68/100Oklahoma 3.6 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Oklahoma 15.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMuskogee County value
Median household income · low$33,750
3/100Oklahoma $66,124United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Life expectancy · low70.3 yrs
3/100Oklahoma 74.0 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMuskogee County value
Voter turnout · low49.6%
4/100Oklahoma 53.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMuskogee County value
Violent crime rate · high612 /100k
5/100Oklahoma 408 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMuskogee County value
Premature death · high14,204 /100k
6/100Oklahoma 10,827 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMuskogee County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,073 (2015-2019) → 1,549 (2020-2024)
−25%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
50.9% (2015-2019) → 81.8% (2020-2024)
+31 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedImproving
1.5 /1k (2021) → 3.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+109%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+88%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
23.1% (2015-2019) → 35.7% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
37.2% (2015-2019) → 49.6% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Haskell, Oklahoma improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 13 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

Broadband+31 points50.9% → 81.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Haskell, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.8 min2015-2019	32.1 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.2%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Broadband subscriptions	50.9%2015-2019	81.8%2020-2024	+31 points	Improved	98%
Child poverty rate	23.1%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	0.65%2015-2019	0.68%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	13%
High school diploma or higher	87.7%2015-2019	87.4%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+1.6×	Within the margin of error	7%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4432015-2019	0.4142020-2024	−0.029	Within the margin of error	74%
Median household income	$46,1312015-2019	$33,7502020-2024	−27%	Within the margin of error	0%
Poverty rate	20.6%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	23.7%2015-2019	29.8%2020-2024	+6.1 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Rent-burdened households	37.2%2015-2019	49.6%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.2%2015-2019	20.1%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“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 Haskell, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Haskell, 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, Haskell, Oklahoma itself moved −15.7 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

1,549 residents (±226)

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

749 households (±160)

Haskell, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k16%†121
$25k–50k47%†352
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

749 households (±160)

Haskell, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own77%580
Rent23%169

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−11.6 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

477 workers (±95)

Haskell, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone83%396
Carpool7.5%†36
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 Muskogee, 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 Muskogee County, the county holding most of Haskell's residents.

Muskogee County has 1,334 employer establishments, 200 for every 10,000 residents (0.81× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Oklahoma's), with 24,190 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,939. The Census Bureau also counts 4,274 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,334; 4,274 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 200; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 24,190
Average annual pay: $52,939; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	145	21.7	1.04×About typical	1,271	$54,914	139
Restaurants and other eating places	109	16.3	0.89×About typical	2,702	$18,261	45
Specialty trade contractors	75	11.2	0.73×Fewer than typical	573	$47,197	380
Religious organizations	60	9	1.62×More than typical	299	$22,522	—
Limited-service restaurants	57	8.5	1.07×About typical	1,708	$17,636	13
Full-service restaurants	44	6.6	0.86×About typical	838	$19,378	24
Offices of other health practitioners	41	6.1	1.01×About typical	251	$38,602	64
Offices of physicians	40	6	0.93×About typical	309	$82,994	19
Gasoline stations	36	5.4	1.67×More than typical	385	$27,379	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	35	5.2	1.04×About typical	161	$38,509	87
Lessors of real estate	33	4.9	0.40×Fewer than typical	104	$38,356	318
Building equipment contractors	32	4.8	0.80×Fewer than typical	217	$49,240	73

Rank places for an industry Open Muskogee County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 66,686 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 Haskell, Oklahoma: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

3.3KFY2017
-55.1FY2018
592.2FY2019
-110.1FY2020
2KFY2021
404.7FY2022
1.9KFY2023
575.4FY2024
1.5KFY2025

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

Haskell, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Muskogee County, OK ($38.5M 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: Haskell is mostly in Muskogee County.

See federal money in Muskogee 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.

Haskell, 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.

Muskogee County7100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Muskogee, OK2

Other cities and towns in Muskogee 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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