Best PlacesLogan County, OK Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in Logan County, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Logan County ranks 966th of 3,144 U.S. counties on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Logan County

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Logan County 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.

Logan County's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%What local pay buys
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Logan County with other counties.

Where Logan County ranks high

  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 95% of counties
  • Household income$94,645 median, better than 90% of counties
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 84% of counties
  • Cell coverageBetter than 83% of counties
  • Internet speedBetter than 82% of counties

Where Logan County ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 6% of counties
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of counties
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 13% of counties
  • Short commute29.0 minutes each way, better than only 20% of counties
  • Cheap childcare$944 a month, better than only 23% of counties

What it costs to buy a home in Logan County

A household needs to earn about $68,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Logan County home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $94,645, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$68,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,597
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $264,504 home
Median rent
$953
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,349
Property tax$160
Homeowners insurance$88

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 Logan County's effective rate of 0.73%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. 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 Logan County

Logan County's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
42
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
18%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1822%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6420%
65 and older18%

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


Who works in Logan County, and how

Work in Logan County centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
11%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.8%
below the national average
Job growth
+3.8%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social14%
Education11%
Retail trade10%
Construction10%
Professional & technical7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 11%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Logan County

Logan County has fewer places to eat and drink per resident than most counties and less parkland per resident than most counties. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Logan County and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
154
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 31.1 per 10,000 residents, more than 14% of counties
Coffee shops
22
about 4.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 40% of counties
Parkland
93 acres
about 1.9 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 22% of counties
Living on campus
1,192
students living in college or university housing

Is Logan County growing, and who is moving in?

Logan County has grown about 20% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from the rest of the Oklahoma City, OK metro.

Population growth
+20%
over the decade, vs about 6% nationally
Population
53,860
up from 44,680
Population by year. Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program.

Where new residents come from

The rest of the Oklahoma City, OK metro1,483 / yr
Payne County, OK321 / yr
Tulsa, OK300 / yr
Chicago, IL174 / yr
San Antonio, TX148 / yr

Where people leaving Logan County go

The rest of the Oklahoma City, OK metro1,882 / yr
Payne County, OK220 / yr
Kingfisher County, OK157 / yr
Phoenix, AZ118 / yr
Tulsa, OK103 / yr

Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.


What the weather is like in Logan County, month by month

Logan County sees roughly 118 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 51, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, 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°60°50°
July94°83°73°
October76°63°52°

Flying in and out of Logan County

The nearest airport, Stillwater Regional, is about 31 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 203 miles away.

Nearest airport
SWO
Stillwater Regional, about 31 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
311th-busiest in the US, 1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
44 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Logan County

Schools across Logan County average a C−, better than 25% of counties.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

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


Logan County 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 Logan County against the other 3,143 counties.


Who Logan County suits

Families

Schools land around the 25th percentile and crime safety beats 63%.

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Remote workers

Cost of living against local pay beats 95% of counties, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 11% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 73% of counties.

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Common questions about living in Logan County

Is Logan County a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Logan County ranks 966th of 3,144 counties. It scores highest on what local pay buys, high incomes, and state finances, and lowest on air quality and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Logan County expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $264,504. The overall cost of living runs about 18% below the national average. Set against a $94,645 median income, cost of living beats 95% of counties.

Is Logan County safe?

Yes, Logan County is safer than 63% of counties. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $395 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Logan County?

July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 51 with lows near 28. That works out to about 118 pleasant days a year, more than 73% of counties.

Is Logan County good for families?

Schools beat 25% of counties, crime safety beats 63%, and childcare runs $944 a month.


Compare Logan County with other counties


Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Logan County. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Logan County 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.

Logan County detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Logan County 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. U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
  3. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  4. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  5. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  6. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  7. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  8. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  9. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  10. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  11. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  13. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.