South Tulsa - an honest area guide

- Where South Tulsa is

Boundaries, roughly speaking

There's no city ordinance that draws a line around "South Tulsa" - it's a common-use term, and different residents, agents, and lenders will nudge the boundaries a few blocks in either direction. The description above is the range most people mean when they use the phrase: roughly 61st to 121st Street, river to 169. Inside that stretch sit dozens of individual subdivisions and neighborhoods, each with its own build era, price band, and character - South Tulsa is a region, not a single neighborhood, and no two pockets of it are quite alike.

Everyday anchors inside the area include the Woodland Hills retail corridor along 71st Street and Memorial Drive, the Creek Turnpike running east-west through the southern part of the area, and Southern Hills Country Club off Lewis Avenue. US-169 and the Creek Turnpike together make commuting into midtown, downtown, or east Tulsa straightforward from most South Tulsa addresses.

- Housing character

South Tulsa's housing stock spans a wide range of construction eras - some pockets date to the 1970s, others were built as recently as the 2020s, and it's common to find a 1978 ranch a few streets from a home finished last year. Lot sizes also run larger on average than in Tulsa's older core neighborhoods, and newer construction tends to sit on subdivided land that was still farmland or undeveloped through the 1980s and 1990s. Because the area covers so much ground and so many build decades, housing character varies block to block - the only way to know what a specific subdivision offers is to look at that subdivision specifically.

- Schools

South Tulsa is served by a mix of school districts depending on the specific address, most commonly Tulsa Public Schools, Jenks Public Schools, and Union Public Schools. District lines cut across the area in ways that don't always match neighborhood boundaries, so the correct district for any given home should be confirmed by address, not assumed from the general area.

- Neighborhoods inside South Tulsa

South Tulsa contains many individually named subdivisions, each with its own sold-price history and build era. A few we track closely:

- Neighborhoods we track here

Browse the full list on the neighborhoods page, or call for a plain read on which South Tulsa subdivision fits what you're looking for.