Piedmont

Piedmont exists because of a railroad that left in 1924.

Dr. E. H. Long founded the town in 1903 in northeastern Canadian County, and in February 1904 he held a lot auction to pull settlers out to it. The St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway arrived that same year, and for two decades the town worked the way a railroad town was supposed to. There were grain elevators along the tracks, cotton gins running through the fall, and livery stables for the people who came in on wagons. Farmers hauled what they grew into Piedmont because Piedmont was where the train was, and the town made its living off that arrangement.

Then the railroad pulled out and took the reason with it.

There were 255 people living in Piedmont in 1910. By 1950 there were 120. A town losing more than half its people over forty years is a town emptying out over the course of a working life, and it very nearly finished the job. Piedmont spent the middle of the twentieth century as a place that had already had its moment.

What brought it back was Oklahoma City growing in its direction. Starting in the 1960s the metro’s edge crept far enough west and north that Piedmont stopped being isolated and started being a drive. The two things that had killed it turned out to be the two things people wanted. It was far out, and it sat on wide-open land. As a rail town those were liabilities. As a place to raise a family just over thirty minutes from downtown, they were the entire appeal.

The town went from 2,006 people in 1980 to 7,394 in 2020, and it sits near 8,000 now.

That history answers the question every buyer actually asks about Piedmont, which is why they should drive that far. The acreage here is the reason the town survived. Large lots and open country are what Piedmont has always been, back when that nearly ended it and now that it doesn’t.

You can see it in what the housing stock looks like. Traditional homes and midcentury brick ranches sit near Dallas-style builds and Modern Farmhouses, and a lot of them sit on real acreage rather than a subdivision lot. New construction is going in at Village Verde and Northwood Village. The land is doing the work here that walkability does somewhere closer in.

Price per square foot out here runs well above the older established suburbs closer to the city. People buying in Piedmont are paying for what surrounds the house.

The schools, and the thing almost nobody explains

Piedmont Public Schools is why most families end up looking here in the first place. The district serves more than 5,500 students across eight sites, from the Early Childhood Center through Piedmont High School, with elementary and intermediate students split between the Piedmont and Stone Ridge campuses along with Northwood Elementary.

The part that trips people up is the size of the district. Piedmont Public Schools covers 96 square miles, and the city of Piedmont is a small piece of that. A very large number of homes that are correctly advertised as being in Piedmont schools are not inside Piedmont city limits at all, and a home with a Piedmont mailing address is not automatically in the district either. Both of those surprise people, usually after they have gotten attached to a house.

If the district is the reason you are looking out here, verify the specific address rather than trusting the listing, the mailing address, or the general area. Elementary assignment depends on where the house actually sits, and the district office will confirm any address if you call them. That one phone call is the difference between buying the school you meant to buy and finding out in July that you didn’t.

I would rather tell you that up front than sell you a house and let you find it out later.

Piedmont Market Updates

August 2026

Piedmont’s median single-family sale price in August 2026 was $299,990, up 10.5% from August 2025, on 35 closed sales.

Median price per square foot came in at $174, up about 1% year over year. Homes that sold took a median of 50 days to do it. There were 177 active listings at month’s end, with 88 new listings added during the month and 4.5 months of supply on hand.

Inventory is up meaningfully from a year ago and homes are taking longer to sell than they did last August. Both are real directional shifts, though the year-over-year percentages on a market this size swing hard on a handful of listings, so read the direction and not the decimal.

Acreage is doing a lot of work in that median. Of August’s closed sales, roughly a fifth sat on acreage, and those were concentrated at the top of the price range. One of the two sales that set the median was a 2.28-acre property built in 1979. Roughly two-thirds of what closed was built in 2025 or 2026, clustered on a handful of streets where subdivisions are actively going up. The median is describing two different markets at once, new tract construction and land, and which one you are shopping changes what that number means for you.

Source: MLSOK via InfoSparks, cross-checked against RPR. Single-family, city of Piedmont.