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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Benton County, Oregon

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

30,859

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

1,179

3.8

Kindergarten

765

2.5

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

7,905

25.6

High school (grades 9-12)

4,187

13.6

College or graduate school

16,823

54.5

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

45,758

100.0

Less than 9th grade

1,222

2.7

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

1,927

4.2

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

7,024

15.4

Some college, no degree

10,613

23.2

Associate degree

3,288

7.2

Bachelor's degree

11,969

26.2

Graduate or professional degree

9,715

21.2

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

93.1

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

47.4

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

64,652

100.0

Never married

23,673

36.6

Now married, except separated

32,438

50.2

Separated

662

1.0

Widowed

2,676

4.1

Female

2,328

3.6

Divorced

5,203

8.0

Female

2,981

4.6

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

611

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

248

40.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

61,360

100.0

Civilian veterans

7,052

11.5

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

20,276

100.0

With a disability

1,404

6.9

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

45,829

100.0

With a disability

5,378

11.7

Percent employed

56.7

(X)

No disability

40,451

88.3

Percent employed

76.2

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

7,697

100.0

With a disability

2,739

35.6

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

74,282

100.0

Same house in 1995

31,393

42.3

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

40,603

54.7

Same county

14,393

19.4

Different county

26,210

35.3

Same state

15,441

20.8

Different state

10,769

14.5

Elsewhere in 1995

2,286

3.1

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

78,153

100.0

Native

72,194

92.4

Born in United States

71,100

91.0

State of residence

33,165

42.4

Different state

37,935

48.5

Born outside United States

1,094

1.4

Foreign born

5,959

7.6

Entered 1990 to March 2000

3,270

4.2

Naturalized citizen

2,111

2.7

Not a citizen

3,848

4.9

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

5,959

100.0

Europe

1,525

25.6

Asia

2,521

42.3

Africa

167

2.8

Oceania

106

1.8

Latin America

1,333

22.4

Northern America

307

5.2

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

74,282

100.0

English only

66,875

90.0

Language other than English

7,407

10.0

Speak English less than 'very well

2,982

4.0

Spanish

3,027

4.1

Speak English less than "very well"

1,365

1.8

Other Indo-European languages

1,729

2.3

Speak English less than "very well"

377

0.5

Asian and Pacific Island languages

2,284

3.1

Speak English less than "very well"

1,110

1.5

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

78,153

100.0

Total ancestries reported

89,753

114.8

Arab

197

0.3

Czech1

748

1.0

Danish

1,268

1.6

Dutch

2,019

2.6

English

11,533

14.8

French (except Basque)1

2,575

3.3

French Canadian1

649

0.8

German

17,677

22.6

Greek

462

0.6

Hungarian

312

0.4

Irish1

9,481

12.1

Italian

2,136

2.7

Lithuanian

124

0.2

Norwegian

3,639

4.7

Polish

1,673

2.1

Portuguese

483

0.6

Russian

811

1.0

Scotch-Irish

2,000

2.6

Scottish

3,160

4.0

Slovak

92

0.1

Subsaharan African

162

0.2

Swedish

3,139

4.0

Swiss

835

1.1

Ukrainian

140

0.2

United States or American

4,417

5.7

Welsh

1,077

1.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

39

0.0

Other ancestries

18,905

24.2

(X) Not applicable.
1 The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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