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State Fact Sheets: Oklahoma

Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment
Federal Funds
Organic Agriculture
Farm Characteristics
Farm Financial Indicators
Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties
About the State Fact Sheets

Data updated January 17, 2012

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Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment

Population
  Rural * Urban * Total
Year
    1980 1,258,111 1,767,376 3,025,487
    1990 1,224,940 1,920,645 3,145,585
    2000 1,293,624 2,157,030 3,450,654
    2010 1,344,013 2,407,338 3,751,351

More information on Oklahoma population
County-level Population Data
Rural Population and Migration Briefing Room
• Contact John Cromartie, 202-694-5421.

Income
  Rural * Urban * Total
Per-capita income (2009 dollars)
    2008 31,140 39,948 36,764
    2009 30,498 38,836 35,837
    Percent change -2.1 -2.8 -2.5
 
Earnings per job (2009 dollars)
    2008 34,878 48,941 44,233
    2009 33,582 48,301 43,367
    Percent change -3.7 -1.3 -2.0
 
Poverty rate (percent)
    1979 16.5 11.3 13.4
    1989 20.3 14.4 16.7
    1999 17.4 13.2 14.7
    2010 (latest model-based estimates) 18.8 15.7 16.8

More information on Oklahoma poverty rates
County-level Poverty Data
Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare Briefing Room
• See important notes about decennial and model-based intercensal poverty estimates
• Contact Tracey Farrigan, 202-694-5489

Household-level Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security
  2002-04 Avg. 2005-07 Avg. 2008-10 Avg.
Percent of households
    Food insecure 15.2 13.0 16.4
    Very low food security 5.6 4.7 7.5

More information on Food Insecurity
Food Security in the United States Briefing Room
Definitions of Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security
• Comparisons of prevalence rates of food insecurity between States must take account of the margins of error, which are sizeable for many States. Margins of error are published along with State prevalence rates in each year’s Household Food Security in the United States report.
• Contact Alisha Coleman-Jensen, 202-694-5456.

Education (Persons 25 and older)
  Rural * Urban * Total
Percent not completing high school
    1980 (Census) 40.6 29.2 34.0
    1990 (Census) 31.0 21.8 25.4
    2000 (Census) 23.2 17.1 19.4
    2006-2010 (ACS) 17.3 13.1 14.6
 
Percent completing high school only
    1980 (Census) 33.0 35.7 34.8
    1990 (Census) 32.4 29.2 30.5
    2000 (Census) 35.0 29.3 31.5
    2006-2010 (ACS) 37.2 29.9 32.6
 
Percent completing some college
    1980 (Census) 13.6 18.0 16.1
    1990 (Census) 22.3 29.0 26.3
    2000 (Census) 25.4 30.9 28.8
    2006-2010 (ACS) 27.6 31.7 30.2
 
Percent completing college
    1980 (Census) 12.3 17.1 15.1
    1990 (Census) 14.3 20.1 17.8
    2000 (Census) 16.3 22.7 20.3
    2006-2010 (ACS) 17.9 25.3 22.6

More information on Oklahoma education
County-level Education Data
Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room
• Contact Alexander Marré, 202-694-5338

Employment
  Rural * Urban * Total
Total number of jobs
    2008 730,433 1,451,299 2,181,732
    2009 720,616 1,429,240 2,149,856
 
Percent employment change
    2007-2008 1.3 0.1 0.5
    2008-2009 -1.6 -2.6 -2.2
    2009-2010 -0.5 -0.3 -0.4
 
Unemployment rate (percent)
    2009 6.6 6.6 6.6
    2010 6.8 7.2 7.1

More information on Oklahoma unemployment rates
County-level Unemployment and Median Household Income Data
Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room
• Contact Lorin Kusmin, 202-694-5429

Federal Funds, FY 2010
  Rural * Urban * Total
Federal funding, dollars per person
   All Federal funds 10,637 10,633 10,634
 
Federal funding by purpose (function codes)
      Agriculture and natural resources 252 19 103
      Community resources 993 1,602 1,384
      Defense and space 913 2,130 1,695
      Human resources 350 197 252
      Income security 7,343 5,396 6,092
      National functions 786 1,289 1,109
 
Federal funding by type of payments (object codes)
      Grants 2,157 1,147 1,508
      Direct loans 216 249 237
      Guaranteed/insured loans 706 1,490 1,210
      Retirement/disability payments 3,598 3,188 3,335
      Other direct payments to
      individuals
2,312 1,583 1,844
      Direct payments, not to
      individuals
245 53 122
      Procurement contracts 678 1,019 897
      Salaries and wages 725 1,904 1,482

Total does not include Statewide funds undistributed at the county level.

More information on Federal Funds
Program Function and Object Code Definitions
Federal Funds and Development Policy Briefing Room
Federal Funds Data
• Contact Richard Reeder, 202-694-5360


* The terms “rural” and “urban” here refer to data for nonmetro and metro areas, a county-level classification defined by the Office of Management and Budget. We use the June 2003 version of nonmetro and metro areas because it reflects conditions at the beginning of the decade. See Measuring Rurality: What is Rural? for a discussion of differences between metro-nonmetro categories and the Census Bureau’s rural-urban classification.
 
More information on socioeconomic conditions
Rural Emphasis Page
• Contact Tim Parker, 202-694-5435.


Organic Agriculture

  2006 2007 2008
Number of certified operations 32 60 66
Crops (acres) 9,536 15,630 14,272
Pasture & rangeland (acres) 5,011 6,215 7,298
Total acres 14,547 21,845 21,570

More information on organic agriculture
Organic Production Data
Organic Agriculture Briefing Room
• Contact Catherine Greene, 202-694-5541.


Farm Characteristics

1997, 2002 and 2007 Census of Agriculture
 
  1997 2002 2007
Approximate total land area (acres) 43,954,269 43,946,916 43,905,445
    Total farmland (acres) 34,069,201 33,661,826 35,087,269
        Percent of total land area 77.5 76.6 79.9
 
        Cropland (acres) 15,478,091 14,843,357 13,007,625
            Percent of total farmland 45.4 44.1 37.1
            Percent in pasture 32.6 34.0 21.4
            Percent irrigated 3.0 3.2 3.7
 
            Harvested Cropland (acres) 8,964,248 7,705,860 7,650,080
 
        Woodland (acres) 2,201,673 2,266,746 2,468,152
            Percent of total farmland 6.5 6.7 7.0
            Percent in pasture 68.9 72.3 69.2
 
        Pastureland (acres) 15,536,014 15,732,765 18,713,085
            Percent of total farmland 45.6 46.7 53.3
 
        Land in house lots, ponds,
        roads, wasteland, etc. (acres)
853,423 818,958 898,407
            Percent of total farmland 2.5 2.4 2.6
 
Conservation practices
        Farmland in conservation or
        wetlands reserve programs
        (acres)
1,024,267 1,103,520 1,150,524
 
Average farm size (acres) 405 404 405
 
Farms by size (percent)
            1 to 99 acres 39.1 40.5 42.0
            100 to 499 acres 41.9 41.5 40.4
            500 to 999 acres 9.7 9.2 8.6
            1000 to 1,999 acres 5.7 4.9 4.8
            2,000 or more acres 3.6 3.9 4.1
 
Farms by sales (percent)
            Less than $9,999 63.5 62.8 62.9
            $10,000 to $49,999 23.5 24.3 23.5
            $50,000 to $99,999 5.3 5.2 5.3
            $100,000 to $499,999 6.4 6.3 6.2
            More than $500,000 1.3 1.4 2.1
 
Tenure of farmers
        Full owner (farms) 48,704 52,817 56,948
            Percent of total 58.0 63.4 65.8
 
        Part owner (farms) 26,736 24,497 24,270
            Percent of total 31.8 29.4 28.0
 
        Tenant owner (farms) 8,588 5,986 5,347
            Percent of total 10.2 7.2 6.2
 
Farm organization
        Individuals/family, sole
        proprietorship (farms)
76,373 78,197 77,412
            Percent of total 90.9 93.9 89.4
 
        Family-held corporations
        (farms)
1,359 978 1,566
            Percent of total 1.6 1.2 1.8
 
        Partnerships (farms) 5,437 3,392 5,905
            Percent of total 6.5 4.1 6.8
 
        Non-family corporations (farms) 161 138 203
            Percent of total 0.2 0.2 0.2
 
        Others - cooperative, estate or
        trust, institutional, etc. (farms)
698 595 1,479
            Percent of total 0.8 0.7 1.7
 
Characteristics of principal farm operators
        Average operator age (years) 54.8 56.0 57.6
        Percent with farming as their
         primary occupation
42.4 55.3 41.6
        Men 76,097 74,580 75,716
        Women 7,931 8,720 10,849
 

More information on farm characteristics
Census of Agriculture
• Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.


Farm Financial Indicators

Farm income and value added data
  2009 2010
 
Number of farms 86,500 86,500
 
  Thousands $
       Final crop output 1,122,500 1,548,895
+     Final animal output 3,715,613 4,436,047
+     Services and forestry 1,126,725 860,938
=   Final agricultural sector output 5,964,838 6,845,880
 
-      Intermediate consumption outlays 4,493,486 4,282,640
+     Net government transactions 49,669 130,816
=   Gross value added 1,521,021 2,694,056
 
-      Capital consumption 729,023 744,969
 
=   Net value added 791,998 1,949,087
 
-    Factor payments 718,238 709,547
         Employee compensation (total hired labor) 296,105 256,086
         Net rent received by nonoperator landlords 67,434 116,472
         Real estate and nonreal estate interest 354,699 336,989
 
=   Net farm income 73,761 1,239,540
 

More information on farm income
Farm Income Data
Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room
• Contact Timothy Park, 202-694-5446.

Farm balance sheet
 
• Estimation of State-level Balance Sheets has been suspended. See the Farm Balance Sheet data page for more information.
 


Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties

Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2010
  Value of receipts
thousand $
Percent of state total
farm receipts
Percent of US value
1. Cattle and calves 2,984,670 48.5 5.8
2. Broilers 724,446 11.8 3.1
3. Hogs 696,411 11.3 3.9
4. Wheat 533,510 8.7 4.9
5. Dairy products 171,000 2.8 0.5
 
All commodities 6,149,855   2.0
 

More information on Oklahoma's top agriculture commodities
Leading commodities by cash receipts in Excel.
Other cash receipts data.
• Contact Ted Covey, 202-694-5344.

Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2010
  Rank among states Value
million $
1. Wheat and products 7 363.9
2. Live animals and meat 13 259.7
3. Feeds and fodders 12 118.2
4. Cotton and linters 12 106.6
5. Poultry and products 16 101.4
 
Total export value 27 1,179.1
 

More information on agricultural exports
State Export Data
Agricultural Trade Briefing Room
• Contact Nora Brooks, 202-694-5211.

Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 2007
  Percent of state total receipts Thousands $
1. Texas County 13.4 779,868
2. Cimarron County 4.5 261,870
3. Le Flore County 3.7 213,060
4. Beaver County 3.2 188,463
5. McCurtain County 3.2 186,206
 
State total   5,806,061
 

More information on agricultural sales
Census of Agriculture
• Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.




Data Sources

Prepared by Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC.

For more information, contact: Tim Parker
Web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov
Updated date: January 17, 2012