
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rogers 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 | 70,641 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,354 | 100.0 | Native | 69,734 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,546 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 69,130 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 949 | 4.9 | State of residence | 45,497 | 64.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,789 | 50.6 | Different state | 23,633 | 33.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,692 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 604 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,378 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 907 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 354 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 426 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 45,152 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 481 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,968 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,536 | 12.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,805 | 32.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 907 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,345 | 25.1 | Europe | 243 | 26.8 | |
| Associate degree | 3,857 | 8.5 | Asia | 243 | 26.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,471 | 12.1 | Africa | 17 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,170 | 4.8 | Oceania | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 316 | 34.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.4 | (X) | Northern America | 87 | 9.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 65,728 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 53,958 | 100.0 | English only | 63,664 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 9,111 | 16.9 | Language other than English | 2,064 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 35,747 | 66.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 523 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 722 | 1.3 | Spanish | 1,115 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,981 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 308 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,533 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 528 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 5,397 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,914 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 168 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,641 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,464 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 59,346 | 84.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 774 | 52.9 | Arab | 79 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 167 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 215 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,398 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,718 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,672 | 17.2 | English | 5,708 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,814 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 196 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,518 | 13.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,055 | 100.0 | Greek | 93 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,450 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 26 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 39,573 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,992 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 7,278 | 18.4 | Italian | 1,039 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 58.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 45 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 32,295 | 81.6 | Norwegian | 491 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 825 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,384 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 48 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,342 | 45.3 | Russian | 147 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,126 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,352 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 35 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 65,728 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,858 | 54.6 | Swedish | 549 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 29,415 | 44.8 | Swiss | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 12,261 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 77 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 17,154 | 26.1 | United States or American | 9,049 | 12.8 | |
| Same state | 11,189 | 17.0 | Welsh | 331 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 5,965 | 9.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 351 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 455 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 16,305 | 23.1 | |
| 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)

