
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Apache County
[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 | 69,423 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 25,885 | 100.0 | Native | 68,820 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,215 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 68,707 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,444 | 5.6 | State of residence | 49,129 | 70.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,355 | 51.6 | Different state | 19,578 | 28.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,636 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 113 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,235 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 603 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 258 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 221 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 36,217 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 382 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,801 | 18.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,365 | 17.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,008 | 24.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 603 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,543 | 20.8 | Europe | 91 | 15.1 | |
| Associate degree | 2,390 | 6.6 | Asia | 97 | 16.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,641 | 7.3 | Africa | 4 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,469 | 4.1 | Oceania | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 347 | 57.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.6 | (X) | Northern America | 62 | 10.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 63,202 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 47,386 | 100.0 | English only | 24,175 | 38.3 | |
| Never married | 17,070 | 36.0 | Language other than English | 39,027 | 61.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 22,824 | 48.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,281 | 24.2 | |
| Separated | 1,149 | 2.4 | Spanish | 1,713 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,921 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 476 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 2,362 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 203 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 3,422 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,933 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 54 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 69,423 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,316 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 66,311 | 95.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,112 | 63.7 | Arab | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 50 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 222 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,738 | 100.0 | Dutch | 293 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,433 | 10.4 | English | 2,791 | 4.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 412 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 97 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,184 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 23,450 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,810 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 33,310 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,491 | 2.1 | |
| With a disability | 9,866 | 29.6 | Italian | 374 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 35.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 23,444 | 70.4 | Norwegian | 177 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 49.7 | (X) | Polish | 165 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,616 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 36 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,537 | 63.0 | Russian | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 360 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 419 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 63,202 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 44,593 | 70.6 | Swedish | 338 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,140 | 28.7 | Swiss | 50 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 9,074 | 14.4 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,066 | 14.3 | United States or American | 1,173 | 1.7 | |
| Same state | 4,372 | 6.9 | Welsh | 167 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 4,694 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 469 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 55,341 | 79.7 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

