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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: Ponca City 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

6,230

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

484

7.8

Kindergarten

419

6.7

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

3,102

49.8

High school (grades 9-12)

1,421

22.8

College or graduate school

804

12.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

16,908

100.0

Less than 9th grade

689

4.1

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

2,149

12.7

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

5,452

32.2

Some college, no degree

3,818

22.6

Associate degree

1,157

6.8

Bachelor's degree

2,581

15.3

Graduate or professional degree

1,062

6.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

83.2

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

21.5

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

20,284

100.0

Never married

3,806

18.8

Now married, except separated

11,725

57.8

Separated

237

1.2

Widowed

1,993

9.8

Female

1,721

8.5

Divorced

2,523

12.4

Female

1,434

7.1

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

441

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

309

70.1

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

19,163

100.0

Civilian veterans

3,002

15.7

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

5,731

100.0

With a disability

435

7.6

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

13,555

100.0

With a disability

3,037

22.4

Percent employed

56.7

(X)

No disability

10,518

77.6

Percent employed

75.1

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

4,423

100.0

With a disability

2,022

45.7

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

24,000

100.0

Same house in 1995

12,565

52.4

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

11,168

46.5

Same county

5,965

24.9

Different county

5,203

21.7

Same state

2,578

10.7

Different state

2,625

10.9

Elsewhere in 1995

267

1.1

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

25,960

100.0

Native

25,333

97.6

Born in United States

25,193

97.0

State of residence

16,772

64.6

Different state

8,421

32.4

Born outside United States

140

0.5

Foreign born

627

2.4

Entered 1990 to March 2000

350

1.3

Naturalized citizen

233

0.9

Not a citizen

394

1.5

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

627

100.0

Europe

80

12.8

Asia

152

24.2

Africa

4

0.6

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

370

59.0

Northern America

21

3.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

24,000

100.0

English only

22,837

95.2

Language other than English

1,163

4.8

Speak English less than 'very well

496

2.1

Spanish

797

3.3

Speak English less than "very well"

379

1.6

Other Indo-European languages

149

0.6

Speak English less than "very well"

37

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

133

0.6

Speak English less than "very well"

73

0.3

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

25,960

100.0

Total ancestries reported

23,899

92.1

Arab

24

0.1

Czech1

165

0.6

Danish

72

0.3

Dutch

571

2.2

English

3,061

11.8

French (except Basque)1

825

3.2

French Canadian1

109

0.4

German

4,260

16.4

Greek

37

0.1

Hungarian

36

0.1

Irish1

2,777

10.7

Italian

459

1.8

Lithuanian

23

0.1

Norwegian

175

0.7

Polish

294

1.1

Portuguese

38

0.1

Russian

32

0.1

Scotch-Irish

727

2.8

Scottish

502

1.9

Slovak

13

0.1

Subsaharan African

22

0.1

Swedish

320

1.2

Swiss

49

0.2

Ukrainian

20

0.1

United States or American

2,973

11.5

Welsh

178

0.7

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

87

0.3

Other ancestries

6,050

23.3

(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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