Best Places74429, OK Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 74429, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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74429 ranks 15,948th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. State infrastructure pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on state finances.

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The best neighborhoods in 74429

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 74429 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

74429's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 74429 with other zip codes.

Where 74429 ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 89% of zip codes
  • Cell coverageBetter than 81% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 73% of zip codes
  • Local economyBetter than 71% of zip codes
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 71% of zip codes

Where 74429 ranks low

  • State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of zip codes
  • School gradeD+, better than only 15% of zip codes
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 18% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than only 30% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 33% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 74429

A household needs to earn about $61,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 74429 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $79,395, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$61,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,417
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $239,164 home
Median rent
$950
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,219
Property tax$117
Homeowners insurance$80

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 74429's effective rate of 0.59%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 74429

74429's age mix sits close to the national median.

Median age
39
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
16%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1824%
18 to 3422%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6419%
65 and older16%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 74429.


Who works in 74429, and how

Work in 74429 centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.3%
below the national average
Job growth
+1.7%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Manufacturing14%
Retail trade13%
Construction11%
Education7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in 74429

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 74429.

Places to eat and drink
49
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 30.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 45% of zip codes
Coffee shops
10
about 6.3 per 10,000 residents, more than 73% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 74429, month by month

74429 sees roughly 93 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 51, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January51°38°28°
April74°61°50°
July95°83°73°
October77°63°52°

Flying in and out of 74429

The nearest airport, Tulsa International, is about 21 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas Love Field, about 226 miles away.

Nearest airport
TUL
Tulsa International, about 21 miles
Airport size
Small hub
84th-busiest in the US, 50 nonstop destinations
Average drive
30 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 74429

Schools across 74429 average a D+, better than 15% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 74429 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


74429 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 74429 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 74429

Is 74429 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 74429 ranks 15,948th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on state finances, cell coverage, and low property taxes, and lowest on state infrastructure and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 74429 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $239,164. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $79,395 median income, cost of living beats 71% of zip codes.

Is 74429 safe?

Yes, 74429 is safer than 64% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $350 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 74429. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 74429 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

74429 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 74429: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 74429: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 74429: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 74429: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

74429 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.