Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens
Seller's Market
Needs 9.1% correction for affordability
DOM: 38d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)50
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)20
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)40
Seller-favored market in 74136. Expect to pay at or near list price. Payment burden: 32.4% of median income. Median days on market: 38. Renting is approximately 117% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 26.0).
Buyer Caution
Seller's market. Be prepared to pay near list price.
Competitive market similar to 2021-2022 — limited inventory driving prices above fundamentals.
WARMINGBALANCED
Market is warming with rising prices. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers. Prices up 5.2% YoY.
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A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Tulsa.
Aggregate median +3.1% YoY in Tulsa, OK (county), but the under-$500k tier is +3.8% — both the aggregate and the entry tier are rising. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 87.0% to 87.0% (+0.0pp) and the $1M+ share from 2.5% to 2.1% (-0.4pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
4 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
$80k
$82
165
43.9%
ZIP
$250k–$500k
$339k
$133
157
41.8%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$551k
$181
36
9.6%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$843k
$230
247
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COUNTY · Tulsa, OK
$1M–$1.5M
$1.20M
$293
123
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COUNTY · Tulsa, OK
$1.5M–$2M
$1.70M
$319
44
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COUNTY · Tulsa, OK
$2M+
$3.17M
$416
63
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COUNTY · Tulsa, OK
All sales (the headline median)
$278k
$120
376
100%
ZIP
ZIP-level history was too thin to draw the tiers; served at county level (Tulsa, OK), by quarter.
Share of sales by tier (quarterly)
If the upper tiers widen over time, the headline median rises on composition alone.
Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
Median within each tier, against the headline median (quarterly)
The blue line is the single number NAR-style reporting quotes. The gold lines are what each tier actually did. Log scale — the tiers span an order of magnitude, and on a log axis equal slopes mean equal percentage moves, which is the comparison being made.
Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
All sales (headline)
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 74136.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
Tulsa County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Tulsa (97.8%) and Tulsa (2.2%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Tulsa (97.8%)
Tulsa (2.2%)
ZIP 74136→2 counties
12-Month Direction
+13Moderate Improvement
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
33· Distressed
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden61
23.4%
affordable
Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15
Buy vs Rent43
1.357x
rent advantage
Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15
Valuation0
+66.4%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand3
2.3 mo
balanced
Source: Lotvox MLS · Updated 2026-05-15
Insurance Risk
26/100
low_risk
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
4.1%
OK 3.6%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0667d ago
Poverty Rate
15.1%
OK 15.9%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$67,317
OK $64,390US $82,006
Near national averages
Cost of Living (RPP)
88.5
OK 88.5US 100.3
Lower than most U.S. counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$254,167
County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
