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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: Washington County, Colorado

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

1,252

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

102

8.1

Kindergarten

73

5.8

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

586

46.8

High school (grades 9-12)

375

30.0

College or graduate school

116

9.3

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

3,314

100.0

Less than 9th grade

268

8.1

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

338

10.2

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

1,115

33.6

Some college, no degree

878

26.5

Associate degree

241

7.3

Bachelor's degree

356

10.7

Graduate or professional degree

118

3.6

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

81.7

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

14.3

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

3,891

100.0

Never married

760

19.5

Now married, except separated

2,494

64.1

Separated

37

1.0

Widowed

283

7.3

Female

236

6.1

Divorced

317

8.1

Female

151

3.9

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

68

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

22

32.4

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

3,625

100.0

Civilian veterans

561

15.5

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,143

100.0

With a disability

76

6.6

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

2,560

100.0

With a disability

411

16.1

Percent employed

62.3

(X)

No disability

2,149

83.9

Percent employed

82.8

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

873

100.0

With a disability

370

42.4

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

4,615

100.0

Same house in 1995

2,962

64.2

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

1,610

34.9

Same county

697

15.1

Different county

913

19.8

Same state

639

13.8

Different state

274

5.9

Elsewhere in 1995

43

0.9

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

4,926

100.0

Native

4,802

97.5

Born in United States

4,777

97.0

State of residence

3,481

70.7

Different state

1,296

26.3

Born outside United States

25

0.5

Foreign born

124

2.5

Entered 1990 to March 2000

75

1.5

Naturalized citizen

32

0.6

Not a citizen

92

1.9

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

124

100.0

Europe

12

9.7

Asia

5

4.0

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

104

83.9

Northern America

3

2.4

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

4,615

100.0

English only

4,373

94.8

Language other than English

242

5.2

Speak English less than 'very well

106

2.3

Spanish

201

4.4

Speak English less than "very well"

99

2.1

Other Indo-European languages

35

0.8

Speak English less than "very well"

6

0.1

Asian and Pacific Island languages

6

0.1

Speak English less than "very well"

1

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

4,926

100.0

Total ancestries reported

4,771

96.9

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

53

1.1

Danish

60

1.2

Dutch

91

1.8

English

528

10.7

French (except Basque)1

79

1.6

French Canadian1

10

0.2

German

1,689

34.3

Greek

7

0.1

Hungarian

4

0.1

Irish1

606

12.3

Italian

47

1.0

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

126

2.6

Polish

61

1.2

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

38

0.8

Scotch-Irish

91

1.8

Scottish

105

2.1

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

3

0.1

Swedish

116

2.4

Swiss

25

0.5

Ukrainian

2

0.0

United States or American

465

9.4

Welsh

14

0.3

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

0

0.0

Other ancestries

551

11.2

(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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