Best PlacesOverbrook, OK Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Overbrook, 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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Overbrook ranks 30,850th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Air quality pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on state finances.

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The best neighborhoods in Overbrook

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Overbrook 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.

Overbrook'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 Overbrook with other towns.

Where Overbrook ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 89% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 127 pleasant days a year, better than 84% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 78% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 70% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 67% of towns

Where Overbrook ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 3% of towns
  • School gradeD+, better than only 11% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 11% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 17% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Overbrook

A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Overbrook home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $73,625, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$54,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,264
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $216,211 home
Median rent
$918
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,102
Property tax$89
Homeowners insurance$72

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 Overbrook's effective rate of 0.50%, 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 8 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 Overbrook

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

Median age
43
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
17%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4921%
50 to 6424%
65 and older17%

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


Who works in Overbrook, and how

Work in Overbrook centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
5%
below the national average
Unemployment
4.1%
below the national average
Job growth
−1.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social15%
Education11%
Retail trade9%
Construction8%
Other services6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 90%
  • Work from home 5%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Overbrook

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


What the weather is like in Overbrook, month by month

Overbrook sees roughly 127 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 54, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs March through 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
January54°42°32°
April74°62°52°
July94°83°73°
October77°64°54°

Flying in and out of Overbrook

The nearest airport, Sheppard AFB/Wichita Falls Municipal, is about 77 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 80 miles away.

Nearest airport
SPS
Sheppard AFB/Wichita Falls Municipal, about 77 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
301st-busiest in the US, 2 nonstop destinations
Average drive
111 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Overbrook

Schools across Overbrook average a D+, better than 11% of towns.

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 Overbrook school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Overbrook 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 Overbrook against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Overbrook

Is Overbrook a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Overbrook ranks 30,850th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state finances, the weather, and low property taxes, and lowest on air quality and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Overbrook expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $216,211. The overall cost of living runs about 18% below the national average. Set against a $73,625 median income, cost of living beats 67% of towns.

Is Overbrook safe?

Overbrook is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $385 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 Overbrook. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Overbrook 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.

Overbrook detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Overbrook 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.