Tulsa County, Oklahoma

• White (non-Hispanic) 390,141 57.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 107,129 15.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 63,117 9.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 25,445 3.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 61,568 9.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 29,948 4.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 1,166 0.2%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2,280 0.3%

• Under 18 170,559 25.1%
• 18–24 62,505 9.2%
• 25–44 189,195 27.8%
• 45–64 155,569 22.9%
• 65 and over 102,966 15.1%

Median household income

$70,089

90% interval $68,605–$71,573

+$3,965 vs OK · 11th of 77

Below poverty line

13.3%

90% interval 12.4%–14.2%

−1.5 pp vs OK · 61st of 77

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.13 pp vs. state

County GDP

$59.3B

22.49% of state

Avg. annual pay

$66,320

Establishments

26,650

• Education & health services 82,728 22.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 74,782 20.1%
• Professional & business services 58,403 15.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 42,869 11.5%
• Manufacturing 41,063 11.0%
• Construction 21,566 5.8%
• Financial activities 21,120 5.7%
• Other services 10,613 2.9%
• Public administration 9,225 2.5%
• Information 4,357 1.2%
• Natural resources & mining 2,741 0.7%
• Unclassified 1 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 99.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

59.7%

−6.1 pp vs OK · 73rd of 77

Median gross rent

$1,110

+$96 vs OK · 4th of 77

Owner-occupied

162,554

Renter-occupied

109,868

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 58% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $145,019/yr) pays 5.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,942/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 145,241 56.5%
• Democratic 106,105 41.3%
• Other / third-party 5,593 2.2%

• Spanish 73,526 11.6%
• Vietnamese 3,200 0.5%
• Arabic 2,086 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,809 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 1,642 0.3%
• Chinese 1,621 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 1,601 0.3%
• Tagalog 1,111 0.2%
• Korean 478 0.1%

Households

272,422

Family households

168,458

61.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

50,126

29.8% of families

Single-mother families

18,597

11.0% of families

Veterans

33,899

6.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 266,338 39.8%
• Mainline Protestant 69,802 10.4%
• Catholic 52,881 7.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 24,706 3.7%
• Black Protestant 13,886 2.1%
• Orthodox 837 0.1%

Health insured

86.7%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

13.3%

±0.3 pp

35th of 77

With a disability

14.3%

±0.3 pp

73rd of 77

Bachelor's or higher

34.4%

±0.5 pp

+6.1 pp vs OK · 4th of 77

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

14.7%

90% interval 14.0%–15.4% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

14th Judicial District Court

Judges

24 (District Court judges per district (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); counts include elected District Judges + Associate District Judges (one per county) + Special Judges. Vintage 2026 oscn.net; cross-checked against 20 OS § 92.13. Municipal Courts (limited jurisdiction: city ordinances) are separately allocated and not counted here.)

Court seats

Pawnee, Tulsa

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

84

16.46 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

79