Metro area · Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, OK metro area

Oklahoma City, OK is a metropolitan area of 7 counties in Oklahoma, home to 1,512,813 residents. Oklahoma City, OK metro area has a quality-of-life score of 52 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #443 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Oklahoma it ranks #1 of 21. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), distance to an emergency room (low) and mental health providers (high). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and median Air Quality Index (high).

52Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#443 of 925 metro and micro areas
Oklahoma
#1 of 21 in OK
Population
1,512,813 (2025)
Land area
5,512 mi²
Density
274.5 /mi²
CBSA code
36420

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Oklahoma City, OK metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety17#770/924
  • Economy69#288/925
  • Housing53#434/925
  • Health52#449/925
  • Healthcare74#242/923
  • Environment1#912/917
  • Education68#299/925
  • Infrastructure77#218/925
  • Community46#498/925
  • Leisure & amenities60#369/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Oklahoma City, OK metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Oklahoma City, OK metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Oklahoma City, OK metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Oklahoma City, OK

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Oklahoma CountyCentral county44822,125
  2. Cleveland CountyCentral county57303,973
  3. Canadian CountyCentral county58187,189
  4. Logan CountyCentral county3655,473
  5. Grady CountyOutlying county3559,128
  6. McClain CountyOutlying county5049,647
  7. Lincoln CountyOutlying county1935,278

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Oklahoma CityPrincipal city697,125

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Oklahoma City697,125
  2. Norman129,672
  3. Edmond96,825
  4. Moore63,420
  5. Midwest City58,297
  6. Yukon25,529
  7. Mustang22,192
  8. Del City21,494
  9. Bethany20,560
  10. El Reno18,557
  11. Chickasha16,539
  12. Newcastle13,001
  13. Choctaw12,303
  14. Guthrie11,243
  15. Warr Acres10,466
  16. The Village9,447
  17. Blanchard9,215
  18. Piedmont8,342
  19. Tuttle8,040
  20. Noble7,493
  21. Purcell6,803
  22. Harrah6,684
  23. Slaughterville4,251
  24. Spencer3,928

Other metro and micro areas in Oklahoma

Areas based in Oklahoma, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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