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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: Malheur 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

8,244

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

406

4.9

Kindergarten

435

5.3

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

4,067

49.3

High school (grades 9-12)

1,987

24.1

College or graduate school

1,349

16.4

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

19,587

100.0

Less than 9th grade

2,284

11.7

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

3,392

17.3

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

5,971

30.5

Some college, no degree

4,687

23.9

Associate degree

1,082

5.5

Bachelor's degree

1,457

7.4

Graduate or professional degree

714

3.6

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

71.0

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

11.1

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

24,355

100.0

Never married

4,326

17.8

Now married, except separated

15,956

65.5

Separated

472

1.9

Widowed

1,538

6.3

Female

1,179

4.8

Divorced

2,063

8.5

Female

1,142

4.7

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

652

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

340

52.1

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

22,941

100.0

Civilian veterans

3,168

13.8

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

7,558

100.0

With a disability

583

7.7

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

14,475

100.0

With a disability

2,965

20.5

Percent employed

47.8

(X)

No disability

11,510

79.5

Percent employed

73.6

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

4,096

100.0

With a disability

1,774

43.3

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

29,285

100.0

Same house in 1995

14,922

51.0

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

13,221

45.1

Same county

6,423

21.9

Different county

6,798

23.2

Same state

3,164

10.8

Different state

3,634

12.4

Elsewhere in 1995

1,142

3.9

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

31,615

100.0

Native

29,016

91.8

Born in United States

28,836

91.2

State of residence

13,784

43.6

Different state

15,052

47.6

Born outside United States

180

0.6

Foreign born

2,599

8.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000

1,164

3.7

Naturalized citizen

742

2.3

Not a citizen

1,857

5.9

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

2,599

100.0

Europe

132

5.1

Asia

116

4.5

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

9

0.3

Latin America

2,256

86.8

Northern America

86

3.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

29,285

100.0

English only

23,104

78.9

Language other than English

6,181

21.1

Speak English less than 'very well

2,577

8.8

Spanish

5,640

19.3

Speak English less than "very well"

2,362

8.1

Other Indo-European languages

234

0.8

Speak English less than "very well"

81

0.3

Asian and Pacific Island languages

220

0.8

Speak English less than "very well"

126

0.4

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

31,615

100.0

Total ancestries reported

28,113

88.9

Arab

3

0.0

Czech1

111

0.4

Danish

338

1.1

Dutch

723

2.3

English

3,296

10.4

French (except Basque)1

680

2.2

French Canadian1

145

0.5

German

4,479

14.2

Greek

5

0.0

Hungarian

37

0.1

Irish1

2,339

7.4

Italian

405

1.3

Lithuanian

7

0.0

Norwegian

621

2.0

Polish

192

0.6

Portuguese

70

0.2

Russian

107

0.3

Scotch-Irish

513

1.6

Scottish

681

2.2

Slovak

8

0.0

Subsaharan African

34

0.1

Swedish

418

1.3

Swiss

296

0.9

Ukrainian

9

0.0

United States or American

1,837

5.8

Welsh

191

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

0

0.0

Other ancestries

10,568

33.4

(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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