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The city`s running and cycling communities support events such as the Tulsa Tough cycling race and the Tulsa Run, which features over 8000 participants annually. Gambling is supported by a community of Indian gaming venues that have been allowed to enlarge gambling options. In 2005, compacts between the state and various tribes allowed facilities to offer table card games and slot machines. Another popular gambling draw, Horse racing events are housed by the Fair Meadows race track and Will Rogers Downs in nearby Claremore.

Tulsa supports a wide array of sports at the professional and collegiate levels. Currently, the city hosts two NCAA Division I colleges and 5 professional, minor league sports teams, playing in basketball, arena football, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The city also contains one of the nation`s top rated golf courses, Southern Hills Country Club, which is one of two courses that have hosted seven majors: four PGA Championships and three U.S. Opens, the most recent in 2007. The course has held 5 amateur championships and the LPGA plays a regular tour stop for the SemGroup Championship at Cedar Ridge Country Club. The 18,000-seat BOK Center, set for completion in 2008, is intended to be a home for the city`s minor league hockey and arena football teams. Until its last season in 1984, the city hosted the Tulsa Roughnecks, which played in the now-defunct North US Soccer League. Also in 1984, the city co-hosted the Oklahoma Outlaws with Oklahoma City for a single season, which belonged to the now-defunct US Football League.

There are three primary public school districts in the city of Tulsa. Tulsa Public Schools, with nine high schools and over 41,000 students, is the largest school district in Oklahoma. Each with one upper high school, Jenks and Union schools are the two other primary districts, covering the southern portion of the city near the towns of Jenks and Broken Arrow. The Catholic Diocese of Tulsa supports a system of parochial and diocesan schools, including Bishop Kelley High School. Another Catholic high school, Cascia Hall Preparatory School, is administered by Augustinians. Most other private schools have religious affiliations with various Jewish and Protestant denominations, including Holland Hall School, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. In 2006, there were more than 90,000 students attending Tulsa County`s public schools.

Municipal and State laws are enforced in Tulsa by the Tulsa Police Department, an organization of about 770 officers as of 2006. In 2004, Tulsa`s crime rate was 7806.1 per 100,000 people, about 1.5 times the national avg. There were 58 murders, 1096 robberies, and 6,592 burglaries in 2004.

A mayor-council government has been in place in Tulsa since 1989 when the city converted from a city commission government deemed wasteful and less efficient. Since the change, Tulsa mayors have been given more power in accordance with a strong mayoral system and have greater control of a more consolidated array of governmental branches. Plurality voting is used to elect mayors, who serve a term in office of four years. The present mayor of Tulsa is Kathryn Taylor, a Democrat, who previously served as Secretary of Commerce and Tourism for the state of Oklahoma. Taylor unseated Republican William LaFortune in his reelection campaign of April 2006. A notable Tulsa political figure, Jim Inhofe, who represents Oklahoma in the US Senate, served as the mayor of Tulsa early in his political career.

As of the census of 2006, there were 382,872 people, 165,743 households, and 99,114 families residing in the city, with a populus density of 830.9/km² (2,152.0/sq mi). There were 179,405 housing units at an avg density of 982.3/sq mi (379.2/km²). Of 165,743 households, 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.2% were non-families. Of all households, 33.9% are made up of only one person, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The avg household size was 2.31 people and the avg family size was 2.98.