Oaks, OK

ZIP code 74359 is assigned to Oaks, OK, and falls within Delaware County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 298 people live inside it.

At 136 residents per square mile spread over 2.195 square miles, 74359 reads as a rural area. It is a sparsely populated postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings are well below the national median. At $45,000, 74359 ranks among the lower-income postal codes, ahead of 10% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 74359 costs well below the national median. A typical home is valued at $68,300 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $625 a month. Ownership dominates: 72.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, which usually signals an established residential area with relatively low turnover.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 91.0% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1975, making the housing here from the later twentieth century. The vacancy rate of 21.3% is high, which in many places reflects seasonal or second-home use rather than abandonment.

The population skews notably young, with a median age of 23.7 against 42 nationally. Households are relatively large at 4.26 people on average, with 68.6% classified as family households.

Getting to work takes 32.4 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 66.7% of workers.

Beyond addressing mail, 74359 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 74359 offers a compact profile of Oaks: 298 residents, a median household income of $45,000, 8.9% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 6.0%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 74359 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Oaks may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.