Quote Originally Posted by Rover View Post
Despite the fact it is obvious that OKC is bigger and growing faster, It is apparent Tulsa’s just can’t accept it. All these “oh yeah, if you …… then Tulsa is better” arguments using arbitrary limits and hypotheticals is silly. We see a lot of excuses here.

Ok has two good cities we should be proud of. Let’s accept one is larger than the other and has been growing faster. It isn’t a referendum on if one is cooler than the other. Right now, it is just how things are going for a lot of reasons.


I'm not really sure why you seem to have a constant axe to grind against Tulsa but there's nothing wrong with people from there taking issue with posters here saying things like:

"And yet in 2025 OKC gained 7,589 new residents while Tulsa added a whopping 146
You and everyone here (I'm assuming), but you especially, know that it's disingenuous to use the city population numbers to compare growth between the two cities and act like OKC legitimately grew 51 times more than Tulsa did last year. OKC makes up nearly 10% of the total MSA area and Tulsa makes up just over 3% of the Tulsa MSA. I've lived in both cities for multiple years at a time recently so maybe I'm one of few here is actually capable of being objective.

If you aren't using the MSA statistics, you don't care about reality and what actually matters when discussing the growth of a city. It's true that OKC is the larger city and is growing faster, but it's also true that the city population numbers don't tell anywhere close to the whole story. Percentage change wise, they aren't that far off (especially the 2022-2023 estimates). The MSA statistics:

OKC MSA
2020: 1,425,695
2023: 1,477,926
Diff: 52,231
%: 3.66%

2022: 1,459,957
Diff: 17,969
%: 1.23%

Tulsa MSA
2020: 1,015,331
2023: 1,044,757
Diff: 29,426
%: 2.90%

2022: 1,034,048
Diff: 10,709
%: 1.04%