Midwest City, Oklahoma, had an estimated 58,799 residents on July 1, 2025. The city counted 58,409 residents in the 2020 Census, and its recent profile combines modest population change with detailed differences in age, housing, income, connectivity, and local business activity.
Contents
- Population size, change, and density
- Age and sex profile
- Race, ethnicity, and population characteristics
- Households, housing, and residential mobility
- Education, connectivity, health, and work
- Income, poverty, and local business activity
Population size, change, and density
The U.S. Census Bureau’s QuickFacts profile for Midwest City gives a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 58,799. The April 1, 2020 population-estimate base was 58,405, and QuickFacts reports a 0.7% increase between that base and the July 1, 2025 estimate. These are population estimates, not a new decennial census count.
The 2020 Census counted 58,409 residents. For longer-term context, the 2010 Census counted 54,371, while the 2000 Census counted 54,088. The 2000 historical count comes from the Census Bureau’s Population and Housing Unit Counts, Oklahoma: 2000; it is a historical measurement rather than a current estimate.
| Population measure | Residents | Measurement period |
|---|---|---|
| Census count | 54,088 | 2000 |
| Census count | 54,371 | 2010 |
| Census count | 58,409 | April 1, 2020 |
| Population estimate | 58,799 | July 1, 2025 |
Midwest City’s population density was 2,199.3 people per square mile in 2000, 2,228.1 in 2010, and 2,394.0 in 2020, according to the same Census sources. Density therefore rose across those historical Census measurements, while the latest QuickFacts population figure is presented as an estimate for a specific date.
Age and sex profile
The 2025 QuickFacts vintage reports that people under age 5 made up 5.1% of Midwest City’s population. People under age 18 represented 25.6%, while residents age 65 and over represented 17.4%. These figures describe the age composition reported in the QuickFacts profile; they should not be treated as a projection of future age groups.
Female residents accounted for 53.2% of the population in the same 2025 QuickFacts vintage. Taken together, the figures show a city with substantial representation among children and older adults, alongside a majority-female population share. The percentages are population characteristics, not counts of individual residents.
The age measures also use different thresholds: under age 5 is a narrow early-childhood group, under age 18 covers the broader child population, and age 65 and over identifies an older-adult group. Reading the thresholds as stated avoids treating them as overlapping categories with identical definitions.
Race, ethnicity, and population characteristics
QuickFacts reports race-alone categories separately from Hispanic or Latino origin. Its footnote explains that people of Hispanic or Latino origin may be of any race, so these percentages should not be added as mutually exclusive categories.
In the 2025 QuickFacts vintage, 59.2% of Midwest City residents identified as White alone, 20.8% as Black or African American alone, 3.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native alone, and 1.7% as Asian alone. The reported share identifying as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone was 0.0%, while 13.5% identified with two or more races.
The same profile reports that 7.7% of residents were of Hispanic or Latino origin. People who were White alone and not Hispanic or Latino represented 56.9% of the population. Because origin and race-alone measures overlap in Census reporting, the last two figures provide distinct descriptors rather than components of one additive total.
Midwest City had 5,091 veterans during 2020-2024. Foreign-born people represented 3.2% of the population in that period. Those measures use the 2020-2024 period and therefore do not have the same reference date as the July 1, 2025 population estimate.
Households, housing, and residential mobility
The Census Bureau reports 24,888 households in Midwest City for 2020-2024, with an average of 2.32 persons per household. A reported 84.5% of residents age 1 and over lived in the same house one year earlier. That mobility measure describes residential continuity during the reference period; it does not say that every household remained unchanged.
The owner-occupied housing unit rate was 58.1%. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $164,500. For owners with a mortgage, median monthly owner costs were $1,360; for owners without a mortgage, the median monthly cost was $501. The median gross rent was $1,091 per month. All of these housing figures cover 2020-2024.
For an older housing benchmark, Midwest City had 23,853 housing units in 2000, according to the Census Bureau’s Population and Housing Unit Counts, Oklahoma: 2000. That historical housing-unit count should be read alongside, not substituted for, the later household and housing-cost measures.
The housing figures offer several ways to understand local residential life. The 58.1% owner-occupied rate indicates that renters and owners both form substantial parts of the housing market. Meanwhile, the separate mortgage and no-mortgage cost measures show why a single typical monthly cost would not describe all owner households equally.
Education, connectivity, health, and work
Among Midwest City residents age 25 and over, 92.4% were high school graduates or higher in 2020-2024. A bachelor’s degree or higher was held by 23.8% of residents in that age group. These are attainment measures for adults 25 and over, not percentages of the entire population.
Technology access was widespread during the same period. Households with a computer represented 94.7% of households, and households with a broadband Internet subscription represented 91.5%. English was not the only language spoken at home for 5.0% of residents age 5 and over. These measures describe household technology and language patterns using their stated age or household universes.
Health-related indicators show that 13.9% of residents under age 65 had a disability in 2020-2024. The 2025 QuickFacts vintage reports that 12.4% of residents under age 65 lacked health insurance. Since the periods differ, the figures should be kept separate rather than read as one synchronized health snapshot.
The civilian labor-force participation rate for residents age 16 and over was 61.3% in 2020-2024. For females age 16 and over, the rate was 57.4%. The mean travel time to work for workers age 16 and over was 22.8 minutes. These statistics describe participation and commuting, not the number of jobs located inside Midwest City.
Income, poverty, and local business activity
Midwest City’s median household income was $57,520 in 2024 dollars during 2020-2024. Per capita income in the past 12 months was $32,775 in 2024 dollars. People in poverty represented 16.5% of the population in the 2025 QuickFacts vintage. Income figures and poverty figures use different stated periods or vintages, so they are not a single-year accounting statement.
The 2022 economic measures in QuickFacts show the scale of several local sectors. Accommodation and food-services sales totaled $208.037 million. Health-care and social-assistance receipts or revenue totaled $355.024 million. Transportation and warehousing receipts or revenue totaled $31.836 million.
Retail activity was larger in aggregate: total retail sales were $1.709353 billion in 2022, with retail sales of $29,473 per capita. Retail sales and sector receipts are business activity measures, not household income, and the per-capita figure should not be interpreted as the amount each resident spent.
| Local measure | Value | Period or dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Accommodation and food-services sales | $208.037 million | 2022 |
| Health-care and social-assistance receipts or revenue | $355.024 million | 2022 |
| Transportation and warehousing receipts or revenue | $31.836 million | 2022 |
| Total retail sales | $1.709353 billion | 2022 |
| Retail sales per capita | $29,473 | 2022 |
For residents and small businesses, these measures point to several distinct parts of the local economy rather than one dominant statistic. Household income and poverty describe residents’ economic position, while retail, food services, health care, and transportation figures describe reported business activity in 2022. Keeping those definitions separate makes the population profile more useful for understanding both everyday local life and the market context in which small businesses operate.