OKPOLICY.ORG
By The Oklahoman Editorial Board
The Oklahoma Policy Institute does a marvelous job gathering and analyzing information. Its crunching of numbers on state finances is a valuable tool for journalists, policymakers and the public.
Here’s something we found interesting: The state’s smallest county has a higher percentage of Hispanic residents than the largest county. Also, a higher percentage of Cimarron County residents are employed in state and local government than in Oklahoma County — 11 percent vs. 10 percent.
As the seat of state government, with a large county government and a number of sizable municipal governments, we’d have thought Oklahoma County would take the prize in government employment, but the county actually ranks 64th in the state by this measure.
In tiny (population wise) Cimarron County, Hispanics represent 20 percent of the population, compared with 15 percent in Oklahoma County and 11 percent in Tulsa County. Oklahoma County does have a smaller share of non-Hispanic whites than Cimarron County because the black population has a much larger share.
One last factoid that we harvested from CountySTATS 2014: In both Oklahoma and Tulsa counties, the percentage of the population engaged in farming is zero. In Cimarron County, 30 percent of residents make a living from farming, helping feed the county’s 2,335 citizens and the rest of the state as well.
http://newsok.com/scissortales-statistics-tell-interesting-story/article/5371135
