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Oklahoma

Top-quartile composite Life Score — grade B+, 80th percentile of the national corpus.

58.5
Life Score / 100
B+
Grade (curved)
#10
of 51 states
80%
composite percentile

Data updated August 2026

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The verdict

Oklahoma is top-quartile composite Life Score — #10 of 51 (58.5/100, grade B+, 80th percentile). Carried by environment at 96/100; held back most by wages at 8/100.

80th
composite percentile
#10
of 51 peers
92nd
cost dimension percentile
8th
wages dimension percentile

Life Score shape · UPPER · ENVIRO-LED

Oklahoma at a glance

Oklahoma is a UPPER-band ENVIRO-LED state: environment leads at 96/100 while wages drags at 8/100 (FLOOR cost · LOW wages). According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Oklahoma ranks #10 of 51 states by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #4 of 51 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.

Where Oklahoma sits among all US states

Composite Life Score vs the 50 states + DC

59 Top 20% higher than 80% of 51 US states

25–30: 1 US states (2%). Below this entry. 30–35: 2 US states (4%). Below this entry. 35–40: 4 US states (8%). Below this entry. 40–45: 6 US states (12%). Below this entry. 45–50: 10 US states (20%). Below this entry. 50–55: 12 US states (24%). Below this entry. 55–60: 10 US states (20%). This entry sits in this band. 60–65: 4 US states (8%). Above this entry. 65–70: 2 US states (4%). Above this entry. This state 25 70 every US state, bucketed by value

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Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data

Dimension detail

How Oklahoma scores, dimension by dimension

Score Breakdown

Cost of Living Wages Rent Safety Schools Childcare Environment

Dimension Scores

Cost of Living 94/100 (20%)
Wages 8/100 (20%)
Rent 80/100 (15%)
Safety 24/100 (15%)
Schools 74/100 (10%)
Childcare 55/100 (10%)
Environment 96/100 (10%)

Read with Oklahoma

Nearest composite peers and cost poles (UPPER · FLOOR/LOW).

West Virginia

ABS(composite) peer at 58.7 (Δ 0.2 vs this state); higher Life Score · grade A- vs this page's UPPER · ENVIRO-LED · FLOOR/LOW.

Alabama

ABS(composite) peer at 58.1 (Δ 0.4 vs this state); lower Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · ENVIRO-LED · FLOOR/LOW.

South Dakota

ABS(composite) peer at 59.4 (Δ 0.9 vs this state); higher Life Score · grade A- vs this page's UPPER · ENVIRO-LED · FLOOR/LOW.

North Dakota

ABS(composite) peer at 59.7 (Δ 1.2 vs this state); higher Life Score · grade A- vs this page's UPPER · ENVIRO-LED · FLOOR/LOW.

Iowa (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 96/100 (Δ 2); cost stamp FLOOR vs this state's FLOOR.

Louisiana (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 92/100 (Δ 2); cost stamp FLOOR vs this state's FLOOR.
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Data sourced from official public datasets, current as of 2026. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCompare