Best PlacesLone Wolf, OK Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Lone Wolf, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Lone Wolf ranks 41,005th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Lone Wolf

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Lone Wolf 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.

Lone Wolf's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Cell coverage
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Lone Wolf with other towns.

Where Lone Wolf ranks high

  • Cell coverageBetter than 92% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 89% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 81% of towns
  • Short commute21.7 minutes each way, better than 81% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 116 pleasant days a year, better than 78% of towns

Where Lone Wolf ranks low

  • Heat safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
  • School gradeD, better than only 6% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 10% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Lone Wolf

A household needs to earn about $19,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lone Wolf home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $55,000, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$19,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$445
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $76,400 home
Median rent
$600
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$390
Property tax$30
Homeowners insurance$25

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 Lone Wolf's effective rate of 0.47%, 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 4 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 Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf runs older than the country.

Median age
47
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
28%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.5
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4916%
50 to 6418%
65 and older28%

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


Who works in Lone Wolf, and how

Work in Lone Wolf centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
4.4%
about the national average
Job growth
+6.0%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Retail trade14%
Construction14%
Agriculture & forestry13%
Education10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 91%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Lone Wolf

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


What the weather is like in Lone Wolf, month by month

Lone Wolf sees roughly 116 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 98 degrees. January highs sit near 53, 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
January53°39°28°
April76°60°48°
July98°84°72°
October78°64°52°

Flying in and out of Lone Wolf

The nearest airport, Lawton-Fort Sill Regional, is about 56 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 192 miles away.

Nearest airport
LAW
Lawton-Fort Sill Regional, about 56 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
288th-busiest in the US, 3 nonstop destinations
Average drive
80 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Lone Wolf

Schools across Lone Wolf average a D, better than 6% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

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


Lone Wolf 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 Lone Wolf against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Lone Wolf

Is Lone Wolf a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lone Wolf ranks 41,005th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, state finances, and low property taxes, and lowest on summer heat and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Lone Wolf expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $76,400. The overall cost of living runs about 21% below the national average. Set against a $55,000 median income, cost of living beats 27% of towns.

Is Lone Wolf safe?

Lone Wolf is safer than 31% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $447 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 Lone Wolf. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lone Wolf 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.

Lone Wolf detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Lone Wolf 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.