Oklahoma Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Oklahoma Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Oklahoma is 68,667 square miles. There are on average 50.3 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 3,450,654 people living in the state within 1,342,293 households (averaging 2.49 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 3,687,050 with an estimated 6.9% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Oklahoma was $17,646. By 2007 the income was $34,997. The average income in each household was $42,836 in 2008. The percentage of Oklahoma residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $126,273 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $42,719 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,650,445 housing units within the state of Oklahoma, a change of 136,051 from 2000 (or about 9.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.4%. The median value of each house was about $70,700 in the state in 2000. 8,753 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,301,899 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Oklahoma births in the year 2006 was 54,016 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 35,427. Infant deaths that year numbered 432.

In 2007, Oklahoma jobs totaled 2,159,540 across all industries. This was a change of 144,455 jobs from 2000. The number of Oklahoma jobs in government in 2007 was 359,622. Workers traveled an average of 21.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 291,610 businesses in Oklahoma in 2002. These include 25.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 5.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Oklahoma devoted to farming was 35,087,269 acres in 2007.

In 2000 7.4% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 3.8%.

The percentage of adults in Oklahoma over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 80.6%. About 20.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Oklahoma with a disability is 676,098.

There were 1,773,186 civilians working in Oklahoma in 2009. The number unemployed was 113,579 (or 6.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,901,754 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 271,861 residents less than five years old, (7.4% of residents), 918,849 less than eighteen years old (24.9% of residents), and 495,962 of the population of Oklahoma was over the age of sixty-five (13.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.6%. The population classified as white was 2,876,092 (78.0%), black: 296,880 (8.1%), Asian: 62,699 (1.7%), two or more races: 151,250 (4.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 301,840 (8.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Oklahoma was $39,924,050 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $30,799,789 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $32,112,960 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $92,252,361 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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