City · Seminole County, Oklahoma

Konawa, Oklahoma

Konawa is a city in Seminole County, Oklahoma. It has 1,076 residents. Konawa, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,335 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #228 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), rent-burdened households (low) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on drug overdose deaths (high), dental care shortage (high) and voter turnout (low).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,335 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #228 of 237 in OK
Population: 1,076 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 819.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 4040200

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.

Safety7#14,560/15,637
Economy5#14,863/15,631
Housing95#744/14,977
Health0#15,573/15,609
Healthcare5#14,899/15,650
Environment9#14,031/15,453
Education5#14,860/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,064/15,650
Community12#13,726/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,193/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Home price to income ratio · low1.6×
97/100Oklahoma 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Rent-burdened households · low36.9%
91/100Oklahoma 46.3%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Effective property tax rate · low0.52%
86/100Oklahoma 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Preventable hospital stays · low1,984 /100k
85/100Oklahoma 3,055 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Rent as share of income · low26.6%
83/100Oklahoma 28.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
82/100Oklahoma 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSeminole County value

Weaknesses

Drug overdose deaths · high50.9 /100k
1/100Oklahoma 19.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSeminole County value
Dental care shortage · high20.0
1/100Oklahoma 7.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSeminole County value
Voter turnout · low46.1%
2/100Oklahoma 53.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionSeminole County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high31.0%
2/100Oklahoma 14.4%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Life expectancy · low69.1 yrs
2/100Oklahoma 74.0 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value
Premature death · high16,462 /100k
2/100Oklahoma 10,827 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSeminole County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,178 (2015-2019) → 1,076 (2020-2024)
−8.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
33.7% (2015-2019) → 15.3% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.2% (2015-2019) → 83.4% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
42.6% (2015-2019) → 36.9% (2020-2024)
−5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
25.6% (2015-2019) → 31.0% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioImproving
1.9× (2015-2019) → 1.6× (2020-2024)
−18%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Konawa, Oklahoma improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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.

Improved2

Child poverty−18 points33.7% → 15.3%
Broadband+14 points69.2% → 83.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Konawa, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.1 min2015-2019	27.9 min2020-2024	−2.2 min	Within the margin of error	73%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.7%2015-2019	15.0%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Broadband subscriptions	69.2%2015-2019	83.4%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	77%
Child poverty rate	33.7%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	−18 points	Improved	92%
Effective property tax rate	0.52%2015-2019	0.52%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	17%
High school diploma or higher	86.2%2015-2019	84.7%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	1.6×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	91%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5022015-2019	0.4572020-2024	−0.044	Within the margin of error	81%
Median household income	$31,7862015-2019	$33,7892020-2024	+6.3%	Within the margin of error	13%
Poverty rate	28.0%2015-2019	24.6%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	27.3%2015-2019	26.6%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Rent-burdened households	42.6%2015-2019	36.9%2020-2024	−5.7 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	25.6%2015-2019	31.0%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	9%

“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 Konawa, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Konawa, 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, Konawa, Oklahoma itself moved +3.9 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

1,076 residents (±174)

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

445 households (±68)

Konawa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k37%166
$25k–50k29%129
$50k–75k18%†78

Homes

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

Owners and renters

445 households (±68)

Konawa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own51%225
Rent49%220

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

352 workers (±77)

Konawa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone67%237
Carpool22%†77
Public transit0.0%0

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 Seminole County, the county holding most of Konawa's residents.

Seminole County has 425 employer establishments, 180 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Oklahoma's), with 5,762 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,669. The Census Bureau also counts 1,460 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 425; 1,460 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 180; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 5,762
Average annual pay: $44,669; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	32	13.6	0.88×About typical	169	$56,355	206
Restaurants and other eating places	27	11.5	0.62×Fewer than typical	385	$17,964	6
Religious organizations	25	10.6	1.91×More than typical	72	$17,542	—
Ambulatory health care services	22	9.3	0.45×Fewer than typical	470	$67,187	38
Building equipment contractors	16	6.8	1.13×About typical	66	$53,697	17
Limited-service restaurants	16	6.8	0.85×About typical	260	$16,708	—
Gasoline stations	15	6.4	1.96×More than typical	159	$19,063	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	14	5.9	1.35×More than typical	33	$50,818	28
Legal services	14	5.9	1.10×About typical	35	$45,314	8
Banks and credit unions	10	4.2	1.31×More than typical	114	$48,658	—
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	9	3.8	1.54×Too few to compare	34	$53,147	—
Full-service restaurants	9	3.8	0.50×Too few to compare	123	$20,260	4

Rank places for an industry Open Seminole County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 23,562 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 -$728 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Konawa, Oklahoma: -$0.68 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$728; −136% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.68; 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

Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$46.640.0%

Top recipients

KONAWA FIRE DEPARTMENT$46.650.0%
MGL ENTERPRISES LLC-$7740.0%

Spending by fiscal year

-45.3FY2017
35FY2023
11.7FY2024
2KFY2025
-727.6FY2026

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$46.64100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$46.650.0%

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

Konawa, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Seminole County, OK ($2.9M 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: Konawa is mostly in Seminole County.

See federal money in Seminole 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.

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

House

Stephanie I. BiceR-OK-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.2%

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.

Seminole County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Seminole 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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