County · Oklahoma

Delaware County, Oklahoma

Delaware County, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 7 out of 100 (very low), ranking #2,913 of 3,143 US counties. Within Oklahoma it ranks #61 of 77 counties. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), hospital quality rating (high) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), some college (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (high).

7Very low
Quality-of-life score
#2,913 of 3,143 counties
Oklahoma
#61 of 77 in OK
Population
41,910 (2025)
Land area
738 mi²
Density
56.8 /mi²
FIPS code
40041

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 78 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Delaware County, Oklahoma

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety15#2,637/3,096
  • Economy11#2,786/3,143
  • Housing35#2,035/3,140
  • Health11#2,801/3,144
  • Healthcare31#2,170/3,143
  • Environment5#2,965/3,108
  • Education32#2,127/3,144
  • Infrastructure14#2,709/3,144
  • Community12#2,754/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities51#1,527/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Delaware County, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US counties (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.

Counties like Delaware County, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Delaware County, 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.

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.

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.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Cities and towns in Delaware County

Places whose residents live mostly in Delaware County, largest first.

  1. Grove7,176
  2. Jay2,731
  3. Cleora1,477
  4. Copeland1,401
  5. West Siloam Springs1,286
  6. Kenwood1,284
  7. Colcord910
  8. Kansas748
  9. Flint Creek627
  10. Bernice396
  11. Dennis396
  12. Leach349
  13. Oaks295
  14. Zena280
  15. Twin Oaks278
  16. Cloud Creek266
  17. Cayuga197
  18. New Eucha185
  19. Butler159
  20. Bull Hollow118
  21. Oak Hill-Piney109
  22. Brush Creek101
  23. Deer Lick85
  24. Sycamore71

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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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