Custer County (Oklahoma)
Custer County is a county located in the state of Oklahoma in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Arapaho.
Geography
The County is located in western Oklahoma, is about 60 km from Texas and has an area of 2595 square kilometers, of which 40 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered clockwise to the following counties: Dewey County, Blaine County, Caddo County, Washita County, Beckham County and Roger Mills County.
History
Custer County was formed as an original county of Cheyenne country as G County on April 19, 1892. On November 6, 1896, was renamed in Custer County, according to the U.S. General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The County ( Oklahoma Land Run ) was settled by white settlers during the third official land ownership acquisition of 19 April 1892. On this day also the first newspaper in Orange County, Arapaho Arrow, which was printed until 1892 in Arapaho appeared.
Demographic data
2000
According to the census in 2000 lived in Custer County 26 142 people in 10,136 households and 6,578 families. The population density was 10 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 81.41 percent White, 2.87 percent African American, 5.81 percent Native American, 0.88 percent Asian, 0.04 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 5.8 percent from other races groups; 3.20 percent were descended from two or more races. 9.03 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 10,136 households, 30.2 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 51.6 percent were married couples living together, 9.5 percent were single mothers. 35.1 percent were non-families, 27.8 percent of all households and 10.8 percent of households had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.05.
24.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 17.4 percent between 18 to 24, 24.5 percent between 25 and 44, 20.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 13.7 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 94.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.
The median income for a household was $ 28,524, and the median income for a family was $ 37,247. Males had a median income of $ 27,066 versus $ 19,479 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,584. 12.4 percent of families and 18.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.