A poor credit score can negatively impact your financial well-being, especially when you need to borrow money for a car or house. Bad credit can also raise your insurance rates. A few states prohibit car insurance companies from using a driver's credit history as a factor in determining their rate. Unfortunately, Oklahoma is not one of those states. Most companies will run your credit if you try to get coverage.

While a poor credit score won't prevent you from getting coverage like it might a loan, you should expect to pay a higher insurance premium.

It is possible to get car insurance without a credit check in Oklahoma. There's a catch, however. Car insurance companies that don't check credit scores often charge higher premiums. Insurance companies that run credit checks do so to calculate how much risk comes with covering a driver. Without that check, the risk calculation is incomplete, and companies will charge more for coverage to compensate for that.

You may not want to go through a credit check, but it might be worth it to see if you can pay less for coverage with a standard car insurance company in Oklahoma.

A poor credit score will be costly for drivers seeking car insurance in a handful of Oklahoma cities. Drivers in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Norman are looking at a $200 per month car insurance bill if they have bad credit.