Porum, OK

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4060250, place: Porum town, Oklahoma)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 201 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 6 (2.99%)
Kindergarten: 12 (5.97%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 115 (57.21%)
High school (grades 9-12): 60 (29.85%)
College or graduate school: 8 (3.98%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 437 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 84 (19.22%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 90 (20.59%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 124 (28.38%)
Some college, no degree: 89 (20.37%)
Associate degree: 21 (4.81%)
Bachelor's degree: 23 (5.26%)
Graduate or professional degree: 6 (1.37%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 60.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 6.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 547 (100%)
Never married: 115 (21.02%)
Now married, except separated: 291 (53.2%)
Separated: 7 (1.28%)
Total Widowed: 70 (12.8%)
Widowed Female: 53 (9.69%)
Total Divorced: 64 (11.7%)
Divorced Female: 32 (5.85%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 28 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 28 (100%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 505 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 83 (16.44%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 207 (100%)
--With a disability: 12 (5.8%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 368 (100%)
--With a disability: 135 (36.68%)
----Percent employed: 37.8%
--No disability: 233 (63.32%)
----Percent employed: 67%
Population 65 years and over: 109 (100%)
--With a disability: 72 (66.06%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 684 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 337 (49.27%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 347 (50.73%)
--Same county: 233 (34.06%)
--Different county: 114 (16.67%)
----Same state: 70 (10.23%)
----Different state: 44 (6.43%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 749 (100%)
Native: 749 (100%)
--Born in United States: 749 (100%)
----State of residence: 580 (77.44%)
----Different state: 169 (22.56%)
--Born outside United States: 0 (0%)
Foreign born: 0 (0%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 0 (0%)
--Not a citizen: 0 (0%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 0
Europe: 0
Asia: 0
Africa: 0
Oceania: 0
Latin America: 0
Northern America: 0

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 684 (100%)
English only: 663 (96.93%)
Language other than English: 21 (3.07%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 6 (0.88%)
--Spanish: 19 (2.78%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 6 (0.88%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 2 (0.29%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 749 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 553% (73.83%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 10 (1.34%)
English: 16 (2.14%)
French (except Basque): 0 (0%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 43 (5.74%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 68 (9.08%)
Italian: 8 (1.07%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 4 (0.53%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 0 (0%)
Scottish: 2 (0.27%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 0 (0%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 116 (15.49%)
Welsh: 4 (0.53%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 2 (0.27%)
Other ancestries: 280 (37.38%)

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