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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: University Place 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

8,322

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

481

5.8

Kindergarten

325

3.9

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

3,772

45.3

High school (grades 9-12)

1,989

23.9

College or graduate school

1,755

21.1

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

19,466

100.0

Less than 9th grade

411

2.1

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

975

5.0

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

4,112

21.1

Some college, no degree

5,514

28.3

Associate degree

1,863

9.6

Bachelor's degree

4,196

21.6

Graduate or professional degree

2,395

12.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

92.9

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

33.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

23,786

100.0

Never married

5,877

24.7

Now married, except separated

13,330

56.0

Separated

359

1.5

Widowed

1,179

5.0

Female

942

4.0

Divorced

3,041

12.8

Female

1,886

7.9

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

303

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

107

35.3

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

21,949

100.0

Civilian veterans

4,306

19.6

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

7,094

100.0

With a disability

517

7.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

17,523

100.0

With a disability

2,924

16.7

Percent employed

67.5

(X)

No disability

14,599

83.3

Percent employed

81.0

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

3,176

100.0

With a disability

1,001

31.5

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

28,247

100.0

Same house in 1995

13,288

47.0

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

13,992

49.5

Same county

9,014

31.9

Different county

4,978

17.6

Same state

2,122

7.5

Different state

2,856

10.1

Elsewhere in 1995

967

3.4

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

30,120

100.0

Native

27,099

90.0

Born in United States

26,479

87.9

State of residence

14,258

47.3

Different state

12,221

40.6

Born outside United States

620

2.1

Foreign born

3,021

10.0

Entered 1990 to March 2000

1,077

3.6

Naturalized citizen

1,781

5.9

Not a citizen

1,240

4.1

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

3,021

100.0

Europe

728

24.1

Asia

1,786

59.1

Africa

35

1.2

Oceania

67

2.2

Latin America

276

9.1

Northern America

129

4.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

28,247

100.0

English only

24,728

87.5

Language other than English

3,519

12.5

Speak English less than 'very well

1,407

5.0

Spanish

592

2.1

Speak English less than "very well"

171

0.6

Other Indo-European languages

931

3.3

Speak English less than "very well"

319

1.1

Asian and Pacific Island languages

1,951

6.9

Speak English less than "very well"

917

3.2

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

30,120

100.0

Total ancestries reported

35,466

117.7

Arab

132

0.4

Czech1

82

0.3

Danish

329

1.1

Dutch

575

1.9

English

3,873

12.9

French (except Basque)1

1,142

3.8

French Canadian1

231

0.8

German

5,726

19.0

Greek

133

0.4

Hungarian

48

0.2

Irish1

3,455

11.5

Italian

1,449

4.8

Lithuanian

31

0.1

Norwegian

2,067

6.9

Polish

681

2.3

Portuguese

97

0.3

Russian

298

1.0

Scotch-Irish

573

1.9

Scottish

1,084

3.6

Slovak

24

0.1

Subsaharan African

245

0.8

Swedish

1,509

5.0

Swiss

208

0.7

Ukrainian

123

0.4

United States or American

1,324

4.4

Welsh

239

0.8

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

47

0.2

Other ancestries

9,741

32.3

(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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