
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Aleutians West Census Area
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 5,465 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 925 | 100.0 | Native | 4,291 | 78.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 66 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 4,233 | 77.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 8.8 | State of residence | 1,364 | 25.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 403 | 43.6 | Different state | 2,869 | 52.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 214 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 58 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 161 | 17.4 | Foreign born | 1,174 | 21.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 517 | 9.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 473 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,251 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 701 | 12.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 424 | 10.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 489 | 11.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,462 | 34.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,174 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,261 | 29.7 | Europe | 41 | 3.5 | |
| Associate degree | 146 | 3.4 | Asia | 837 | 71.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 384 | 9.0 | Africa | 28 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 85 | 2.0 | Oceania | 24 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 242 | 20.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,220 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,693 | 100.0 | English only | 3,180 | 60.9 | |
| Never married | 1,446 | 30.8 | Language other than English | 2,040 | 39.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,405 | 51.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,171 | 22.4 | |
| Separated | 164 | 3.5 | Spanish | 570 | 10.9 | |
| Widowed | 70 | 1.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 265 | 5.1 | |
| Female | 55 | 1.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 62 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 608 | 13.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 197 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,043 | 20.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 774 | 14.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,465 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 52 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,831 | 88.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 32 | 61.5 | Arab | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 35 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,468 | 100.0 | Dutch | 25 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 502 | 11.2 | English | 330 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 62 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 337 | 6.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 769 | 100.0 | Greek | 15 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 40 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,297 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 249 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 811 | 18.9 | Italian | 72 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 60.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,486 | 81.1 | Norwegian | 82 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 36 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 91 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 42 | 46.2 | Russian | 40 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 54 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 113 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,220 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 48 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,999 | 38.3 | Swedish | 48 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,864 | 54.9 | Swiss | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 882 | 16.9 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 1,982 | 38.0 | United States or American | 164 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 354 | 6.8 | Welsh | 48 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 1,628 | 31.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 357 | 6.8 | Other ancestries | 2,952 | 54.0 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (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. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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