Cost of Living
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How Enid's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Enid?
Your $100,000 in Enid has the same purchasing power as $128,866 in the average US city. You'd need $28,866 less here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Enid's cost index of 78, sorted by closest match.
Enid has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. The cost-of-living math actually works and short commutes are the local norm are the headliners. The rest is below.
By the numbers, Enid is one of the more affordable US cities of its size. The composite index sits at 78, about 22% below the national average, with housing as the main driver of the discount. Median rent in town runs about $861/mo against a typical household income of $60,790, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
Average commute time in Enid runs around 18 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Enid's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Enid gets a handful of meaningful snow days each year. Winters average about 29°F — cold enough for several inches at a time, warm enough for everything to melt between storms.
A real winter, but not a punishing one. Enid averages roughly 29°F in winter, with the coldest mornings dipping into the single digits a few times a year and most days landing somewhere between "chilly" and "actually cold".
Properly hot. Enid's summer averages around 91°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Enid falls in roughly USDA Zone 8. The zone classification is based on average annual minimum temperatures, so it's the right lookup for whether perennials and trees will overwinter here. Note that this is approximate from our winter-temperature data — check the USDA map for the exact zone before betting an expensive plant on it.
Roughly 1,260 feet (384 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Enid comes in around 3,351 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Enid is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 78 versus the 100 national baseline — about 22% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Enid scores 35 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $54,320 to live in Enid the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Enid runs about $861/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.