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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Lawton city, Oklahoma

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

26,492

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

2,020

7.6

Kindergarten

1,584

6.0

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

11,711

44.2

High school (grades 9-12)

5,096

19.2

College or graduate school

6,081

23.0

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

53,060

100.0

Less than 9th grade

2,114

4.0

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

5,650

10.6

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

16,186

30.5

Some college, no degree

15,807

29.8

Associate degree

3,079

5.8

Bachelor's degree

7,011

13.2

Graduate or professional degree

3,213

6.1

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

85.4

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

19.3

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

71,172

100.0

Never married

19,465

27.3

Now married, except separated

37,332

52.5

Separated

1,823

2.6

Widowed

3,961

5.6

Female

3,208

4.5

Divorced

8,591

12.1

Female

4,610

6.5

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

1,702

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,033

60.7

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

55,188

100.0

Civilian veterans

13,232

24.0

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

21,268

100.0

With a disability

1,779

8.4

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

40,775

100.0

With a disability

8,184

20.1

Percent employed

52.9

(X)

No disability

32,591

79.9

Percent employed

70.9

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

8,020

100.0

With a disability

3,632

45.3

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

85,524

100.0

Same house in 1995

33,049

38.6

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

48,618

56.8

Same county

20,662

24.2

Different county

27,956

32.7

Same state

5,518

6.5

Different state

22,438

26.2

Elsewhere in 1995

3,857

4.5

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

93,030

100.0

Native

87,260

93.8

Born in United States

82,379

88.6

State of residence

35,004

37.6

Different state

47,375

50.9

Born outside United States

4,881

5.2

Foreign born

5,770

6.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000

1,514

1.6

Naturalized citizen

3,305

3.6

Not a citizen

2,465

2.6

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

5,770

100.0

Europe

2,072

35.9

Asia

1,799

31.2

Africa

148

2.6

Oceania

46

0.8

Latin America

1,554

26.9

Northern America

151

2.6

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

85,524

100.0

English only

74,623

87.3

Language other than English

10,901

12.7

Speak English less than 'very well

3,415

4.0

Spanish

5,477

6.4

Speak English less than "very well"

1,812

2.1

Other Indo-European languages

2,964

3.5

Speak English less than "very well"

647

0.8

Asian and Pacific Island languages

2,062

2.4

Speak English less than "very well"

914

1.1

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

93,030

100.0

Total ancestries reported

88,233

94.8

Arab

159

0.2

Czech1

338

0.4

Danish

202

0.2

Dutch

1,027

1.1

English

5,899

6.3

French (except Basque)1

2,123

2.3

French Canadian1

376

0.4

German

12,229

13.1

Greek

85

0.1

Hungarian

205

0.2

Irish1

7,924

8.5

Italian

2,006

2.2

Lithuanian

68

0.1

Norwegian

680

0.7

Polish

989

1.1

Portuguese

186

0.2

Russian

308

0.3

Scotch-Irish

1,374

1.5

Scottish

1,276

1.4

Slovak

60

0.1

Subsaharan African

853

0.9

Swedish

607

0.7

Swiss

71

0.1

Ukrainian

46

0.0

United States or American

8,122

8.7

Welsh

416

0.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

659

0.7

Other ancestries

39,945

42.9

(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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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