What is the population of Yale city?

Yale city has 1,054 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 846 in Oklahoma.

What is the median household income in Yale city?

Median household income in Yale city is $38,462 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yale city?

Median gross rent is $848 a month and the median home value is $84,700, so rent absorbs about 26.5% of median household income.

Is Yale city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 26.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Yale, OK population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Yale, Oklahoma (Yale, OK — Census place “Yale city”) is 1,054 residents, ranking #232 of 846 places in Oklahoma. Median household income is $38,462, the median home is worth $84,700 and median gross rent runs $848 a month. Looking for the Yale Oklahoma ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Yale, OK: 74085.

Population: 1,054Yale city residents
Median household income: $38,462Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $84,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $848Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 63.6%Owner-occupied households

Yale ZIP codes (Oklahoma)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Yale.

The Yale OK ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

74085

What the numbers mean in Yale city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Yale city median would spend about 26.5% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 38.8% of residents and 63.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Yale city, OK in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Yale city is a small town in Oklahoma, with 1,054 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #232 of 846 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 41.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Yale city earn a median of $38,462 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538 and 28% below the $53,500 median for the 240 Oklahoma cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 38.8% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Yale city is valued at $84,700, 72.1% below the national figure and 33% below the $125,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $848 a month, 39.7% below the national figure, or roughly $10,176 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, 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. 63.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Yale city?: Yale city has 1,054 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 846 in Oklahoma.
What is the median household income in Yale city?: Median household income in Yale city is $38,462 a year, 51% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yale city?: Median gross rent is $848 a month and the median home value is $84,700, so rent absorbs about 26.5% of median household income.
Is Yale city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 26.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Yale city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.