City safety & data profile
BethanyOK
Bethany, OK is a 20K-resident city in Oklahoma County with a median household income of $56,591.
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Bethany, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Bethany has a population larger than 43% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $171,600, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 20K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 44%
- By size
- $56,591
- Median income (place)
- $171,600
- Median home (place)
- 20.5%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Bethany
Bethany posts a median household income higher than 17% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Bethany area.
- Bottom 18%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Bethany
Where Bethany income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$56,591 Bottom 17% higher than 17% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in OK
Population among 43 OK places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, OK
681,054 residents
- Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
413,066 residents
- Norman 128,026
Norman, OK
128,026 residents
- Broken Arrow 106,563
Broken Arrow, OK
106,563 residents
- Lawton 96,655
Lawton, OK
96,655 residents
- Edmond 90,092
Edmond, OK
90,092 residents
- Moore 60,451
Moore, OK
60,451 residents
- Midwest City 57,249
Midwest City, OK
57,249 residents
- Enid 51,776
Enid, OK
51,776 residents
- Stillwater 48,967
Stillwater, OK
48,967 residents
What this shows Oklahoma City is the largest OK city on this list; Jenks leads median income.
Highest median incomes in OK
Median household income among the same 43-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Jenks
Jenks, OK
$111,004 median
- Bixby
Bixby, OK
$104,404 median
- Edmond
Edmond, OK
$103,183 median
- Choctaw
Choctaw, OK
$100,574 median
- Mustang
Mustang, OK
$87,844 median
- Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow, OK
$86,765 median
- Moore
Moore, OK
$80,420 median
- Glenpool
Glenpool, OK
$79,525 median
- Owasso
Owasso, OK
$79,036 median
- Sand Springs
Sand Springs, OK
$75,645 median
What this shows Jenks posts the highest place-level median income in OK; Oklahoma City is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Bethany, OK beyond the headline numbers
Bethany sits inside Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at roughly 35.52°N, -97.63°W. Population 19,589, $56,591 median household income. Median home value $171,600, median rent $1,071. Poverty rate 20.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Bethany, 0 with an ER.
20.5% of Bethany, OK residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.
Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Bethany runs about 3.0 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.
Only 6.2% of Bethany workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, coronary heart disease departs furthest from its peer median: 8.2% in Bethany, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,757 cities reporting that measure.
Public transit carries 0% of Bethany workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Bethany's median age is 31.1 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Bethany from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Oklahoma County): Bethany's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 20.5% +65% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 24.1% |
| Work From Home | 6.2% |
| Public Transit | 0% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
What alerts and safety updates affect Bethany?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Bethany right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet OK-BETHANY-OK · Bethany
Bethany: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Bethany; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Oklahoma state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Bethany, both outside Oklahoma so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside OK (20.5% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside OK ($56,591 here).
Compare Bethany with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Bethany's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Bethany area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Bethany against Oklahoma peers on any ranking lens. Explore Oklahoma
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Oklahoma County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.