DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oklahoma County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 660,448 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 177,872 | 100.0 | Native | 612,619 | 92.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 12,134 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 606,494 | 91.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 10,081 | 5.7 | State of residence | 397,935 | 60.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 76,069 | 42.8 | Different state | 208,559 | 31.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 36,351 | 20.4 | Born outside United States | 6,125 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 43,237 | 24.3 | Foreign born | 47,829 | 7.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 26,894 | 4.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15,175 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 420,823 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 32,654 | 4.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 23,814 | 5.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 49,734 | 11.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 109,475 | 26.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 47,829 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 109,298 | 26.0 | Europe | 3,498 | 7.3 | |
| Associate degree | 21,724 | 5.2 | Asia | 16,509 | 34.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 70,118 | 16.7 | Africa | 1,944 | 4.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 36,660 | 8.7 | Oceania | 148 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 24,886 | 52.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 844 | 1.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 612,796 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 519,952 | 100.0 | English only | 541,657 | 88.4 | |
| Never married | 135,872 | 26.1 | Language other than English | 71,139 | 11.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 268,605 | 51.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34,178 | 5.6 | |
| Separated | 11,338 | 2.2 | Spanish | 44,062 | 7.2 | |
| Widowed | 34,807 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22,461 | 3.7 | |
| Female | 28,777 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,970 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 69,330 | 13.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,399 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 40,315 | 7.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14,379 | 2.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,408 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 660,448 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,852 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 612,416 | 92.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,805 | 52.9 | Arab | 2,934 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,948 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,851 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 486,796 | 100.0 | Dutch | 11,151 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 71,717 | 14.7 | English | 60,563 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 16,104 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,252 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 82,617 | 12.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 149,794 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,176 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 13,680 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 693 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 370,783 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 63,405 | 9.6 | |
| With a disability | 80,526 | 21.7 | Italian | 10,521 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 58.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 227 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 290,257 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 4,715 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 6,534 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 76,742 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 500 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 34,243 | 44.6 | Russian | 1,739 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 12,739 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,507 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 192 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 612,796 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,992 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 292,347 | 47.7 | Swedish | 5,255 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 303,067 | 49.5 | Swiss | 992 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 190,779 | 31.1 | Ukrainian | 553 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 112,288 | 18.3 | United States or American | 60,172 | 9.1 | |
| Same state | 50,925 | 8.3 | Welsh | 3,542 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 61,363 | 10.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,844 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 17,382 | 2.8 | Other ancestries | 239,698 | 36.3 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
