Census-designated place · Osage County, Oklahoma

McCord, Oklahoma

McCord is a census-designated place in Osage County, Oklahoma, part of the Tulsa, OK metro area. It has 1,553 residents. McCord, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,757 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #145 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), rent as share of income (low) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), restaurants and bars (low) and drug overdose deaths (high).

12Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,757 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #145 of 237 in OK
Population: 1,553 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 355.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4044925

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety12#13,815/15,637
Economy45#8,550/15,631
Housing99#194/14,977
Health15#13,257/15,609
Healthcare2#15,291/15,650
Environment5#14,630/15,453
Education25#11,778/15,649
Infrastructure40#9,428/15,650
Community11#13,894/15,651
Leisure & amenities2#15,283/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Job growth · high4.0%
97/100Oklahoma 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataOsage County value
Rent as share of income · low13.9%
96/100Oklahoma 28.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Time spent in the emergency room · low103 min
95/100Oklahoma 122 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesOsage County value
Average commute time · low17.1 min
92/100Oklahoma 22.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Rent-burdened households · low27.8%
86/100Oklahoma 46.3%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Home price to income ratio · low2.4×
81/100Oklahoma 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.2 /10k
0/100Oklahoma 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOsage County value
Restaurants and bars · low2.8 /10k
1/100Oklahoma 8.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOsage County value
Drug overdose deaths · high39.0 /100k
3/100Oklahoma 19.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOsage County value
Primary care physicians · low18 /100k
3/100Oklahoma 60 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOsage County value
Adult obesity · high45.2%
4/100Oklahoma 40.4%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Access to exercise opportunities · low40.8%
6/100Oklahoma 70.7%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOsage County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
57.1% (2015-2019) → 27.8% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
35.7% (2015-2019) → 13.9% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.1% (2015-2019) → 88.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
10.2% (2015-2019) → 22.3% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$60,625 (2015-2019) → $83,125 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
17.5% (2015-2019) → 10.9% (2020-2024)
−6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, McCord, Oklahoma improved on 4 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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.

Improved4

Rent / income−22 points35.7% → 13.9%
Bachelor's++12 points10.2% → 22.3%
Uninsured−6.6 points17.5% → 10.9%
Broadband+13 points76.1% → 88.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of McCord, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.9 min2015-2019	17.1 min2020-2024	−1.9 min	Within the margin of error	69%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.2%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	94%
Broadband subscriptions	76.1%2015-2019	88.6%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	27.8%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	0.83%2015-2019	0.73%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	36%
High school diploma or higher	88.5%2015-2019	94.0%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	64%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3902015-2019	0.4622020-2024	+0.072	Within the margin of error	9%
Median household income	$60,6252015-2019	$83,1252020-2024	+37%	Within the margin of error	69%
Poverty rate	16.8%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−5.2 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	35.7%2015-2019	13.9%2020-2024	−22 points	Improved	99%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.5%2015-2019	10.9%2020-2024	−6.6 points	Improved	91%

“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 McCord, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of McCord, 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, McCord, Oklahoma itself moved +12.3 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,553 residents (±310)

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

586 households (±85)

McCord, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k7.9%†46
$25k–50k24%†142
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

586 households (±85)

McCord, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own86%504
Rent14%†82

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

693 workers (±125)

McCord, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone86%593
Carpool5.3%†37
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 Osage County, the county holding most of McCord's residents.

Osage County has 608 employer establishments, 132 for every 10,000 residents (0.53× the US rate of 248; 0.55× Oklahoma's), with 5,414 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,869. The Census Bureau also counts 3,546 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 608; 3,546 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 132; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 5,414
Average annual pay: $42,869; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	68	14.7	0.95×About typical	401	$51,367	317
Restaurants and other eating places	37	8	0.44×Fewer than typical	507	$18,327	14
Ambulatory health care services	30	6.5	0.31×Fewer than typical	295	$59,498	121
Religious organizations	30	6.5	1.17×About typical	108	$21,463	—
Building equipment contractors	29	6.3	1.04×About typical	108	$49,593	63
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	20	4.3	1.37×More than typical	52	$31,981	66
Lessors of real estate	20	4.3	0.35×Fewer than typical	29	$34,621	238
Gasoline stations	19	4.1	1.27×More than typical	143	$31,245	—
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	19	4.1	1.25×About typical	71	$46,000	31
Limited-service restaurants	18	3.9	0.49×Fewer than typical	321	$15,545	9
Services to buildings and dwellings	17	3.7	0.55×Fewer than typical	75	$26,427	269
Full-service restaurants	14	3	0.39×Fewer than typical	165	$24,418	—

Rank places for an industry Open Osage County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 46,187 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 $5,908 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in McCord, Oklahoma: $3.80 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $5,908; +165% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3.80; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 53%; 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

Department of the Army$5,908100%

Top recipients

FEDERAL CONTRACTS LLC$5,908100%

Spending by fiscal year

941.8FY2017
457.5FY2018
-3.3FY2020
10.1KFY2022
9.7KFY2023
1.7KFY2024
2.2KFY2025
5.9KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Motor vehicle manufacturing · 3361$5,908100%

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

McCord, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Osage County, OK ($13.6M 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: McCord is mostly in Osage County.

See federal money in Osage 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.

McCord, 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.

Osage County16100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tulsa, OK42

Other cities and towns in Osage 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
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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