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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: Curry 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

3,801

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

141

3.7

Kindergarten

156

4.1

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

1,971

51.9

High school (grades 9-12)

1,070

28.2

College or graduate school

463

12.2

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

16,168

100.0

Less than 9th grade

507

3.1

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

2,456

15.2

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

5,191

32.1

Some college, no degree

4,309

26.7

Associate degree

1,046

6.5

Bachelor's degree

1,571

9.7

Graduate or professional degree

1,088

6.7

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

81.7

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

16.4

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

17,909

100.0

Never married

2,331

13.0

Now married, except separated

11,181

62.4

Separated

269

1.5

Widowed

1,808

10.1

Female

1,292

7.2

Divorced

2,320

13.0

Female

1,231

6.9

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

254

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

128

50.4

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

17,048

100.0

Civilian veterans

3,943

23.1

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

3,655

100.0

With a disability

393

10.8

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

10,800

100.0

With a disability

2,992

27.7

Percent employed

58.0

(X)

No disability

7,808

72.3

Percent employed

69.6

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

5,598

100.0

With a disability

2,232

39.9

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

20,269

100.0

Same house in 1995

10,597

52.3

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

9,524

47.0

Same county

3,750

18.5

Different county

5,774

28.5

Same state

1,716

8.5

Different state

4,058

20.0

Elsewhere in 1995

148

0.7

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

21,137

100.0

Native

20,359

96.3

Born in United States

20,196

95.5

State of residence

5,653

26.7

Different state

14,543

68.8

Born outside United States

163

0.8

Foreign born

778

3.7

Entered 1990 to March 2000

133

0.6

Naturalized citizen

478

2.3

Not a citizen

300

1.4

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

778

100.0

Europe

371

47.7

Asia

97

12.5

Africa

5

0.6

Oceania

45

5.8

Latin America

125

16.1

Northern America

135

17.4

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

20,269

100.0

English only

19,177

94.6

Language other than English

1,092

5.4

Speak English less than 'very well

227

1.1

Spanish

504

2.5

Speak English less than "very well"

109

0.5

Other Indo-European languages

432

2.1

Speak English less than "very well"

83

0.4

Asian and Pacific Island languages

83

0.4

Speak English less than "very well"

20

0.1

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

21,137

100.0

Total ancestries reported

23,405

110.7

Arab

3

0.0

Czech1

112

0.5

Danish

224

1.1

Dutch

769

3.6

English

3,375

16.0

French (except Basque)1

927

4.4

French Canadian1

184

0.9

German

4,446

21.0

Greek

43

0.2

Hungarian

70

0.3

Irish1

2,909

13.8

Italian

683

3.2

Lithuanian

11

0.1

Norwegian

884

4.2

Polish

248

1.2

Portuguese

280

1.3

Russian

98

0.5

Scotch-Irish

543

2.6

Scottish

807

3.8

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

11

0.1

Swedish

662

3.1

Swiss

194

0.9

Ukrainian

39

0.2

United States or American

1,725

8.2

Welsh

305

1.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

55

0.3

Other ancestries

3,798

18.0

(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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