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Okemah city, Oklahoma: commercial real estate data.
Okemah city is a Census city of 3,063 people across 3.10 square miles of land, in Okfuskee County. Median household income is $32,386, 40.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.5 m.
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Okemah
What Okemah is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.1 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land987
- County holding the largest share of its areaOkfuskee County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okemah
How many people live in Okemah
- Population3,063
- Median age36.5
- Population under 18851
- Share under 1827.8 percent
- Population 65 and over544 plus or minus 120
- Share 65 and over17.8 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Households1,150
- Family households774
- Share of households that are families67.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okemah
Income and work in Okemah
- Median household income$32,386
- Per capita income$19,795
- Civilian labor force1,076
- Employed1,060
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate1.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over1,962
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.9 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okemah
Housing in Okemah
- Housing units1,372
- Occupied units1,150
- Vacant units222 plus or minus 64
- Vacancy rate16.2 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Owner occupied468
- Renter occupied682
- Ownership rate40.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$79,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$726
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.9 percent
- Single family units974
- Share single family71.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more341 plus or minus 81
- Share in buildings of two or more24.9 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes49 plus or minus 37
- Median year structure built1970
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okemah
How Okemah gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute917
- Commuting under 15 minutes495 plus or minus 104
- Share commuting under 15 minutes54.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more161 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.6 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Drove alone67.6 percent
- Carpooled12.7 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked8.5 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Worked from home9.0 percent plus or minus 4.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okemah
SBA 7(a) lending to Okemah borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$3,526,000
- Average approval$881,500
- Median approval$300,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,000,000
- Largest approval$3,000,000
- Jobs supported84
- Jobs per approval21.0
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term180 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises50.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Okemah
SBA 504 lending to Okemah borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$3,648,000
- Average approval$1,824,000
- Median approval$2,522,000
- Largest approval$2,522,000
- Jobs supported35
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Okfuskee County, not Okemah
Okfuskee County context, not Okemah figures
These are Okfuskee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Okemah measurements.
- Establishments in Okfuskee County159
- Employment at those establishments, Okfuskee County1,868
- Covered employment, Okfuskee County2,497
- Average annual pay, Okfuskee County$41,478
- Average weekly wage, Okfuskee County$798
- Housing units permitted, Okfuskee County3
- Of those, single family, Okfuskee County3
- County product, 2024, Okfuskee County$304,220,000
- County product change over the prior year, Okfuskee County1.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Okfuskee County$38,184
Every figure in this section is published for Okfuskee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Okemah. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Okemah questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Okemah, Oklahoma?
3,063, in 1,150 households. Okemah city covers 3.10 square miles of land, which is 987 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Okemah in?
Okfuskee County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Okemah?
$32,386. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $79,300. Median gross rent is $726 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Okemah businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $3.5 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $300,500, plus 2 504 approvals worth $3.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Okemah, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Okemah borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Okemah. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Okemah figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Okfuskee County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Okemah.
Is zoning published for Okemah?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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