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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: San Francisco County, California

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

182,963

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

9,343

5.1

Kindergarten

6,579

3.6

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

52,351

28.6

High school (grades 9-12)

29,531

16.1

College or graduate school

85,159

46.5

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

595,805

100.0

Less than 9th grade

62,549

10.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

49,516

8.3

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

82,618

13.9

Some college, no degree

99,933

16.8

Associate degree

33,197

5.6

Bachelor's degree

170,186

28.6

Graduate or professional degree

97,806

16.4

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

81.2

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

45.0

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

682,575

100.0

Never married

305,498

44.8

Now married, except separated

264,016

38.7

Separated

12,644

1.9

Widowed

41,770

6.1

Female

34,676

5.1

Divorced

58,647

8.6

Female

32,719

4.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

19,838

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

5,474

27.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

664,541

100.0

Civilian veterans

46,345

7.0

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

102,655

100.0

With a disability

8,331

8.1

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

533,008

100.0

With a disability

95,576

17.9

Percent employed

56.3

(X)

No disability

437,432

82.1

Percent employed

79.5

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

104,934

100.0

With a disability

46,224

44.1

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

745,650

100.0

Same house in 1995

403,806

54.2

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

292,101

39.2

Same county

147,006

19.7

Different county

145,095

19.5

Same state

75,766

10.2

Different state

69,329

9.3

Elsewhere in 1995

49,743

6.7

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

776,733

100.0

Native

491,192

63.2

Born in United States

478,811

61.6

State of residence

268,519

34.6

Different state

210,292

27.1

Born outside United States

12,381

1.6

Foreign born

285,541

36.8

Entered 1990 to March 2000

106,200

13.7

Naturalized citizen

163,426

21.0

Not a citizen

122,115

15.7

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

285,541

100.0

Europe

39,799

13.9

Asia

175,302

61.4

Africa

3,257

1.1

Oceania

2,830

1.0

Latin America

60,569

21.2

Northern America

3,784

1.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

745,650

100.0

English only

404,571

54.3

Language other than English

341,079

45.7

Speak English less than 'very well

186,401

25.0

Spanish

89,759

12.0

Speak English less than "very well"

44,779

6.0

Other Indo-European languages

49,788

6.7

Speak English less than "very well"

18,377

2.5

Asian and Pacific Island languages

194,584

26.1

Speak English less than "very well"

120,900

16.2

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

776,733

100.0

Total ancestries reported

822,590

105.9

Arab

5,430

0.7

Czech1

2,931

0.4

Danish

3,970

0.5

Dutch

6,319

0.8

English

47,221

6.1

French (except Basque)1

18,113

2.3

French Canadian1

3,275

0.4

German

60,176

7.7

Greek

3,831

0.5

Hungarian

3,711

0.5

Irish1

68,876

8.9

Italian

39,144

5.0

Lithuanian

2,038

0.3

Norwegian

7,830

1.0

Polish

14,332

1.8

Portuguese

3,679

0.5

Russian

21,727

2.8

Scotch-Irish

8,129

1.0

Scottish

13,596

1.8

Slovak

734

0.1

Subsaharan African

5,454

0.7

Swedish

9,748

1.3

Swiss

3,381

0.4

Ukrainian

5,516

0.7

United States or American

12,520

1.6

Welsh

4,487

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

1,639

0.2

Other ancestries

444,783

57.3

(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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