Larimer County, Colorado - Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006

Larimer County, Colorado

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006

Data Set: 2006 American Community Survey
Survey: American Community Survey

Social - Education, Marital Status, Relationships, Fertility, Grandparents...
Economic - Income, Employment, Occupation, Commuting to Work...
Housing - Occupancy and Structure, Housing Value and Costs, Utilities...
Demographic - Sex and Age, Race, Hispanic Origin, Housing Units...
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NOTE. Although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties.

For more information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see Survey Methodology.

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006	Estimate	Margin of Error
HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	113,140	+/-1,724
Family households (families)	72,137	+/-2,427
With own children under 18 years	34,945	+/-2,232
Married-couple families	57,443	+/-2,682
With own children under 18 years	25,118	+/-1,955
Male householder, no wife present	5,236	+/-1,312
With own children under 18 years	3,215	+/-986
Female householder, no husband present	9,458	+/-1,556
With own children under 18 years	6,612	+/-1,285
Nonfamily households	41,003	+/-2,269
Householder living alone	28,186	+/-2,407
65 years and over	6,885	+/-1,093

Households with one or more people under 18 years	37,695	+/-2,225
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	19,088	+/-884

Average household size	2.36	+/-0.04
Average family size	2.85	+/-0.07

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	267,444	+/-421
Householder	113,140	+/-1,724
Spouse	57,375	+/-2,605
Child	68,729	+/-2,331
Other relatives	7,648	+/-1,941
Nonrelatives	20,552	+/-2,211
Unmarried partner	7,031	+/-1,573

MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over	112,340	+/-684
Never married	38,487	+/-1,995
Now married, except separated	60,105	+/-2,655
Separated	1,623	+/-756
Widowed	2,326	+/-631
Divorced	9,799	+/-1,649

Females 15 years and over	114,279	+/-598
Never married	30,605	+/-1,582
Now married, except separated	60,353	+/-2,799
Separated	2,690	+/-1,106
Widowed	7,389	+/-1,127
Divorced	13,242	+/-1,743

FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months	4,011	+/-1,141
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)	580	+/-431
Per 1,000 unmarried women	16	+/-12
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old	53	+/-15
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old	13	+/-20
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old	91	+/-28
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old	27	+/-14

GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents living with own grandchildren under 18 years	2,792	+/-801
Responsible for grandchildren	1,477	+/-576
Years responsible for grandchildren
Less than 1 year	311	+/-219
1 or 2 years	418	+/-292
3 or 4 years	308	+/-314
5 or more years	440	+/-346

Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Who are female	61.5%	+/-10.7
Who are married	83.5%	+/-11.5

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school	82,063	+/-2,910
Nursery school, preschool	4,195	+/-829
Kindergarten	2,991	+/-670
Elementary school (grades 1-8)	26,816	+/-1,173
High school (grades 9-12)	14,120	+/-1,093
College or graduate school	33,941	+/-2,788

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over	178,302	+/-514
Less than 9th grade	4,485	+/-1,140
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	7,457	+/-1,307
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	40,657	+/-3,331
Some college, no degree	39,183	+/-2,154
Associate's degree	13,387	+/-1,826
Bachelor's degree	43,712	+/-2,832
Graduate or professional degree	29,421	+/-2,796

Percent high school graduate or higher	93.3%	+/-1.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	41.0%	+/-2.1

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over	215,803	+/-386
Civilian veterans	22,098	+/-2,091

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 years and over	257,159	+/-506
With a disability	29,854	+/-2,720

Population 5 to 15 years	36,287	+/-719
With a disability	1,954	+/-601

Population 16 to 64 years	193,745	+/-873
With a disability	18,954	+/-2,552

Population 65 years and over	27,127	+/-516
With a disability	8,946	+/-1,071

RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over	272,769	+/-778
Same house	206,933	+/-5,483
Different house in the U.S.	64,691	+/-5,494
Same county	37,426	+/-4,346
Different county	27,265	+/-3,662
Same state	11,670	+/-2,402
Different state	15,595	+/-3,040
Abroad	1,145	+/-997

PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population	276,253	*****
Native	260,597	+/-2,189
Born in United States	257,712	+/-2,280
State of residence	108,525	+/-4,574
Different state	149,187	+/-4,585
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)	2,885	+/-896
Foreign born	15,656	+/-2,189

U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS
Foreign-born population	15,656	+/-2,189
Naturalized U.S. citizen	6,487	+/-1,234
Not a U.S. citizen	9,169	+/-2,110

YEAR OF ENTRY
Population born outside the United States	18,541	+/-2,280

Native	2,885	+/-896
Entered 2000 or later	342	+/-476
Entered before 2000	2,543	+/-779

Foreign born	15,656	+/-2,189
Entered 2000 or later	5,939	+/-1,895
Entered before 2000	9,717	+/-1,567

WORLD REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population, excluding population born at sea	N	N
Europe	N	N
Asia	N	N
Africa	N	N
Oceania	N	N
Latin America	N	N
Northern America	N	N

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over	260,001	+/-371
English only	236,357	+/-2,966
Language other than English	23,644	+/-3,011
Speak English less than "very well"	9,041	+/-1,490
Spanish	15,324	+/-2,410
Speak English less than "very well"	6,374	+/-1,388
Other Indo-European languages	3,871	+/-1,072
Speak English less than "very well"	522	+/-316
Asian and Pacific Islander languages	3,028	+/-957
Speak English less than "very well"	1,568	+/-706
Other languages	1,421	+/-1,118
Speak English less than "very well"	577	+/-531

ANCESTRY
Total population	276,253	*****
American	11,111	+/-2,061
Arab	1,877	+/-1,412
Czech	2,629	+/-882
Danish	5,604	+/-1,874
Dutch	8,115	+/-1,514
English	43,220	+/-3,779
French (except Basque)	11,513	+/-2,159
French Canadian	2,148	+/-857
German	87,401	+/-4,971
Greek	1,283	+/-569
Hungarian	1,539	+/-799
Irish	39,192	+/-4,052
Italian	18,092	+/-2,937
Lithuanian	582	+/-341
Norwegian	10,069	+/-2,009
Polish	7,934	+/-1,608
Portuguese	886	+/-604
Russian	3,928	+/-1,113
Scotch-Irish	7,859	+/-1,910
Scottish	9,453	+/-1,810
Slovak	485	+/-259
Subsaharan African	532	+/-375
Swedish	10,332	+/-2,047
Swiss	2,576	+/-1,049
Ukrainian	994	+/-775
Welsh	3,452	+/-1,108
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)	178	+/-230

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006	Estimate	Margin of Error

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey

Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

Notes:
�Ancestry listed in this table refers to the total number of people who responded with a particular ancestry; for example, the estimate given for Russian represents the number of people who listed Russian as either their first or second ancestry. This table lists only the largest ancestry groups; see the Detailed Tables for more categories. Race and Hispanic origin groups are not included in this table because official data for those groups come from the Race and Hispanic origin questions rather than the ancestry question (see Demographic Table).
�The Census Bureau introduced a new skip pattern for the disability questions in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. This change mainly affected two individual items -- go-outside-home disability and employment disability -- and the recode for disability status, which includes the two items. Accordingly, comparisons of data from 2003 or later with data from prior years are not recommended for the relevant questions. For more information, see the ACS Subject Definitions for Disability.
�Data for year of entry of the native population reflect the year of entry into the U.S. by people who were born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas or born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen parent and who subsequently moved to the U.S.
�While the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) data generally reflect the December 2005 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) definitions of metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, in certain instances the names, codes, and boundaries of the principal cities shown in ACS tables may differ from the OMB definitions due to differences in the effective dates of the geographic entities.

Explanation of Symbols:
1. An '**' entry in the margin of error column indicates that either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
2. An '-' entry in the estimate column indicates that either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate, or a ratio of medians cannot be calculated because one or both of the median estimates falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
3. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
4. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
5. An '***' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the median falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution. A statistical test is not appropriate.
6. An '*****' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the estimate is controlled. A statistical test for sampling variability is not appropriate.
7. An 'N' entry in the estimate and margin of error columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.
8. An '(X)' means that the estimate is not applicable or not available.

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