
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Navajo 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 | 97,470 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 32,682 | 100.0 | Native | 95,816 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,844 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 95,414 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,703 | 5.2 | State of residence | 67,403 | 69.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,795 | 51.4 | Different state | 28,011 | 28.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,384 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 402 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,956 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 1,654 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 683 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 633 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 54,215 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,021 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,514 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,113 | 16.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,036 | 27.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,654 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,673 | 25.2 | Europe | 296 | 17.9 | |
| Associate degree | 3,218 | 5.9 | Asia | 180 | 10.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,020 | 7.4 | Africa | 14 | 0.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,641 | 4.9 | Oceania | 31 | 1.9 | |
| Latin America | 966 | 58.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.2 | (X) | Northern America | 167 | 10.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 89,175 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 68,952 | 100.0 | English only | 53,619 | 60.1 | |
| Never married | 20,345 | 29.5 | Language other than English | 35,556 | 39.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 37,279 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,632 | 16.4 | |
| Separated | 1,341 | 1.9 | Spanish | 4,185 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 3,911 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,335 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 3,096 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 619 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 6,076 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 3,294 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 177 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 85 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 97,470 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,821 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 93,410 | 95.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,280 | 59.7 | Arab | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 308 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 846 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 62,822 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,116 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,839 | 12.5 | English | 8,663 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,454 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 280 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,175 | 8.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 30,217 | 100.0 | Greek | 117 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,199 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 130 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 47,459 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,643 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 12,551 | 26.4 | Italian | 1,352 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 44.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 77 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 34,908 | 73.6 | Norwegian | 1,074 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 60.4 | (X) | Polish | 667 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,495 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 61 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,764 | 50.2 | Russian | 138 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,026 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,339 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 59 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 89,175 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 34 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 54,025 | 60.6 | Swedish | 1,240 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 34,115 | 38.3 | Swiss | 235 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 17,860 | 20.0 | Ukrainian | 63 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 16,255 | 18.2 | United States or American | 4,222 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 10,580 | 11.9 | Welsh | 381 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 5,675 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 34 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,035 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 54,624 | 56.0 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

