Canadian County

administration
US state :	Oklahoma
Administrative headquarters :	El Reno
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 201 N Choctaw Avenue El Reno, OK 73036-2673
Foundation :	1889
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001
Demographics
Residents :	115,541 (2010)
Population density :	49.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2344 km²
Water surface :	14 km²
map

Website : www.canadiancounty.org

The Canadian County is a county in the US state of Oklahoma . At the 2010 census , the county had 115,541 people and a population density of 49.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is El Reno , named after Jesse Lee Reno , a general killed in the American Civil War .

Canadian County is part of the Greater Oklahoma City metropolitan area .

geography

The county is located just west of the geographic center of Oklahoma and has an area of 2,344 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Blaine County	Kingfisher County
		Oklahoma County
Caddo County	Grady County	Cleveland County

history

The Canadian County was formed on May 2, 1890 as the original county on former Indian land. It was named after the Canadian River that flows through the county. The county was settled by white settlers during the first official land occupation ( Oklahoma Land Run ) on April 22, 1889. Here, in 1875, the last great battle in Oklahoma between Cheyenne, Arapaho and the US Army took place.

The El Reno Hotel is one of the county's 24 entries in the NRHP.

24 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of May 22, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	7158	-
1900	15,981	123.3%
1910	23,501	47.1%
1920	22,288	-5.2%
1930	28,115	26.1%
1940	27,329	-2.8%
1950	25,644	-6.2%
1960	24,727	-3.6%
1970	32,245	30.4%
1980	56,452	75.1%
1990	74,409	31.8%
2000	87,697	17.9%
2010	115,541	31.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Canadian County Age Pyramid

As of the 2000 census , the Canadian County had 87,697 people in 31,484 households and 24,431 families. The population density was 38 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 87.01 percent white, 2.16 percent African American, 4.27 percent Native American, 2.45 percent Asian, 0.05 percent from the Pacific island area and 1.35 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.72 percent were descended from two or more races. 3.86 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups.

Of the 31,484 households, 39.8 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 64.3 percent were married couples living together, 9.7 percent were single mothers. 22.4 percent were not families, 19.2 percent were single households and 7.1 percent of the households had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.10 people.

28.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 8.2 percent between 18 and 24, 30.7 percent between 25 and 44, 23.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 9.5 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were statistically 99.4 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 97.7 men.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 45,439 , and the median income for a family was $ 51,180. Males had a median income of $ 35,944 versus $ 24,631 for females. The per capita income was $ 19,691. 5.8 percent of families and 7.9 percent of the population are below the poverty line.