Drowning Creek, OK population, income and ZIP codes

Drowning Creek CDP is a very small community in Oklahoma, with 135 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #625 of 846 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 70.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Drowning Creek CDP earn a median of $43,516 a year, 44.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% below the $53,500 median for the 240 Oklahoma cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 8.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Drowning Creek CDP is valued at $36,400, 88% below the national figure and 71% below the $125,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 85.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 70.1 puts Drowning Creek CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 135 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Drowning Creek CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Drowning Creek CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.