Best PlacesMedicine Park, OK Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Medicine Park, 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.
Medicine Park ranks 11,768th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Medicine Park
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.
Medicine Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Medicine Park ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 96% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 95% of towns
- Household income$111,215 median, better than 90% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 89% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 85% of towns
Where Medicine Park ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 50 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 5% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 11% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Medicine Park
A household needs to earn about $80,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Medicine Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $111,215, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Medicine Park's effective rate of 0.56%, 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.
Who lives in Medicine Park
Medicine Park runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Medicine Park.
Who works in Medicine Park, and how
Work in Medicine Park centers on hospitality & food and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 94%
- Work from home 3%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Medicine Park
Medicine Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Medicine Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Medicine Park, month by month
Medicine Park sees roughly 50 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 55, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs March through May and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55° | 41° | 30° |
| April | 76° | 62° | 50° |
| July | 96° | 84° | 73° |
| October | 78° | 64° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Medicine Park
The nearest airport, Lawton-Fort Sill Regional, is about 13 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 152 miles away.
The best schools in and around Medicine Park
Schools across Medicine Park average a C, better than 32% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Freedom EsC+ · 40% proficient
- Elgin EsC · 35% proficient
- Cache EsC · 34% proficient
Top middle schools
- Cache MsC · 34% proficient
- Elgin MsC · 32% proficient
- Eisenhower MsD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Elgin HsC · 33% proficient
- Cache HsD+ · 25% proficient
- Eisenhower HsD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Medicine Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Medicine Park 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 Medicine Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Medicine Park
Is Medicine Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Medicine Park ranks 11,768th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, cell coverage, and high incomes, and lowest on the weather and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Medicine Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $314,921. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $111,215 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Medicine Park safe?
Yes, Medicine Park is safer than 63% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $333 per resident a year.
Compare Medicine Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Medicine Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Medicine Park 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.
Medicine Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Medicine Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Medicine Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Medicine Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Medicine Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Medicine Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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