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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: Sherman 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

465

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

38

8.2

Kindergarten

16

3.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

263

56.6

High school (grades 9-12)

132

28.4

College or graduate school

16

3.4

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

1,316

100.0

Less than 9th grade

46

3.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

161

12.2

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

433

32.9

Some college, no degree

340

25.8

Associate degree

86

6.5

Bachelor's degree

197

15.0

Graduate or professional degree

53

4.0

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

84.3

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

19.0

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

1,526

100.0

Never married

264

17.3

Now married, except separated

944

61.9

Separated

24

1.6

Widowed

98

6.4

Female

68

4.5

Divorced

196

12.8

Female

95

6.2

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

20

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

16

80.0

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

1,426

100.0

Civilian veterans

310

21.7

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

456

100.0

With a disability

26

5.7

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

1,029

100.0

With a disability

169

16.4

Percent employed

57.4

(X)

No disability

860

83.6

Percent employed

74.3

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

350

100.0

With a disability

114

32.6

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

1,835

100.0

Same house in 1995

1,148

62.6

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

664

36.2

Same county

285

15.5

Different county

379

20.7

Same state

232

12.6

Different state

147

8.0

Elsewhere in 1995

23

1.3

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

1,934

100.0

Native

1,886

97.5

Born in United States

1,881

97.3

State of residence

1,149

59.4

Different state

732

37.8

Born outside United States

5

0.3

Foreign born

48

2.5

Entered 1990 to March 2000

25

1.3

Naturalized citizen

7

0.4

Not a citizen

41

2.1

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

48

100.0

Europe

5

10.4

Asia

6

12.5

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

37

77.1

Northern America

0

0.0

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

1,835

100.0

English only

1,689

92.0

Language other than English

146

8.0

Speak English less than 'very well

54

2.9

Spanish

114

6.2

Speak English less than "very well"

47

2.6

Other Indo-European languages

18

1.0

Speak English less than "very well"

7

0.4

Asian and Pacific Island languages

11

0.6

Speak English less than "very well"

0

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

1,934

100.0

Total ancestries reported

1,955

101.1

Arab

4

0.2

Czech1

2

0.1

Danish

37

1.9

Dutch

37

1.9

English

250

12.9

French (except Basque)1

71

3.7

French Canadian1

27

1.4

German

405

20.9

Greek

0

0.0

Hungarian

5

0.3

Irish1

194

10.0

Italian

16

0.8

Lithuanian

9

0.5

Norwegian

85

4.4

Polish

21

1.1

Portuguese

12

0.6

Russian

8

0.4

Scotch-Irish

60

3.1

Scottish

67

3.5

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

0

0.0

Swedish

53

2.7

Swiss

5

0.3

Ukrainian

19

1.0

United States or American

248

12.8

Welsh

48

2.5

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

0

0.0

Other ancestries

272

14.1

(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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