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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: Kent city, Washington

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

20,345

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

1,478

7.3

Kindergarten

1,333

6.6

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

9,493

46.7

High school (grades 9-12)

4,206

20.7

College or graduate school

3,835

18.8

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

49,306

100.0

Less than 9th grade

2,394

4.9

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

4,209

8.5

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

13,007

26.4

Some college, no degree

13,457

27.3

Associate degree

4,418

9.0

Bachelor's degree

8,731

17.7

Graduate or professional degree

3,090

6.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

86.6

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

24.0

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

60,736

100.0

Never married

17,777

29.3

Now married, except separated

30,887

50.9

Separated

1,074

1.8

Widowed

2,599

4.3

Female

2,107

3.5

Divorced

8,399

13.8

Female

4,618

7.6

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

1,378

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

486

35.3

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

57,405

100.0

Civilian veterans

7,649

13.3

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

18,421

100.0

With a disability

1,423

7.7

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

48,314

100.0

With a disability

8,486

17.6

Percent employed

59.1

(X)

No disability

39,828

82.4

Percent employed

80.3

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

5,772

100.0

With a disability

2,717

47.1

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

72,774

100.0

Same house in 1995

26,842

36.9

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

41,706

57.3

Same county

27,107

37.2

Different county

14,599

20.1

Same state

4,476

6.2

Different state

10,123

13.9

Elsewhere in 1995

4,226

5.8

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

79,325

100.0

Native

65,899

83.1

Born in United States

65,185

82.2

State of residence

35,610

44.9

Different state

29,575

37.3

Born outside United States

714

0.9

Foreign born

13,426

16.9

Entered 1990 to March 2000

8,216

10.4

Naturalized citizen

4,983

6.3

Not a citizen

8,443

10.6

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

13,426

100.0

Europe

3,138

23.4

Asia

5,776

43.0

Africa

819

6.1

Oceania

160

1.2

Latin America

3,023

22.5

Northern America

510

3.8

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

72,774

100.0

English only

56,878

78.2

Language other than English

15,896

21.8

Speak English less than 'very well

8,134

11.2

Spanish

4,824

6.6

Speak English less than "very well"

2,554

3.5

Other Indo-European languages

5,399

7.4

Speak English less than "very well"

2,714

3.7

Asian and Pacific Island languages

4,701

6.5

Speak English less than "very well"

2,517

3.5

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

79,325

100.0

Total ancestries reported

83,340

105.1

Arab

330

0.4

Czech1

368

0.5

Danish

812

1.0

Dutch

1,237

1.6

English

7,178

9.0

French (except Basque)1

2,150

2.7

French Canadian1

539

0.7

German

12,916

16.3

Greek

203

0.3

Hungarian

193

0.2

Irish1

7,220

9.1

Italian

2,524

3.2

Lithuanian

85

0.1

Norwegian

4,100

5.2

Polish

1,084

1.4

Portuguese

214

0.3

Russian

1,061

1.3

Scotch-Irish

1,100

1.4

Scottish

1,568

2.0

Slovak

120

0.2

Subsaharan African

1,013

1.3

Swedish

2,264

2.9

Swiss

432

0.5

Ukrainian

1,477

1.9

United States or American

3,282

4.1

Welsh

417

0.5

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

95

0.1

Other ancestries

29,358

37.0

(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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