Household Changes in Oklahoma

Paul Monies with The Oklahoman did a great article on July 14, 2011 on the changing face of state households. A followup article on July 17 added even more detail. Here are some snippets from these articles:

~ Out of 1.46 million households in Oklahoma, 722,435 were husband-and-wife households in 2010.
But the share of husband-and-wife households fell to 49.5 percent. That's down from 53.5 percent in 2000.

~ At 168,633, single-parent households grew by 18.7 percent since 2000. The majority of those households still are made up of single mothers, but single-father households jumped by 40 percent in the last decade. That compared to single-mother households, which grew by 12 percent.

~ The number of households with unmarried partners increased by 63 percent in the past decade from 53,307 to 86,694 (i.e., from 3.9 percent in 2000 to 5.9 percent of all households in 2010).

~Most of the unmarried-partner households in Oklahoma were male and female, but about 9,800 were same-sex couples in 2010. This represented an increase of 70 percent from 2000. Same-sex households make up a small part, 0.67 percent, of all households in Oklahoma.

~ More than 79,580 children were living with a grandparent last year. The census did not ask that question in 2000. Earlier estimates from the Census' American Community Survey put the figure at 75,000.

~ The number of households made up of men living alone rose to 12.5 percent in 2010, up from 11.4 percent in 2000. Female-alone households fell slightly to 14.9 percent in 2010.

~ Married couples with no children at home accounted for 28.1 percent of households in 2010, up 6 percent.

Read the July 14 article at http://newsok.com/census-2010-south-and-central-americans-help-boost-hispanic-population-in-oklahoma/article/3585489 and the July 17 article at http://newsok.com/census-2010-the-changing-face-of-oklahomas-families/article/3586521