
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Yavapai 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 | 167,517 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 37,187 | 100.0 | Native | 157,572 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,009 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 156,397 | 93.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,806 | 4.9 | State of residence | 46,641 | 27.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,521 | 44.4 | Different state | 109,756 | 65.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,443 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 1,175 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,408 | 22.6 | Foreign born | 9,945 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,846 | 2.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,868 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 120,223 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6,077 | 3.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,547 | 4.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 12,829 | 10.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 33,877 | 28.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,945 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 34,625 | 28.8 | Europe | 2,384 | 24.0 | |
| Associate degree | 7,940 | 6.6 | Asia | 821 | 8.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 15,685 | 13.0 | Africa | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,720 | 8.1 | Oceania | 133 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 5,623 | 56.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 917 | 9.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 158,931 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 138,598 | 100.0 | English only | 143,456 | 90.3 | |
| Never married | 25,127 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 15,475 | 9.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 82,705 | 59.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,907 | 3.7 | |
| Separated | 1,720 | 1.2 | Spanish | 11,173 | 7.0 | |
| Widowed | 10,946 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,856 | 3.1 | |
| Female | 8,593 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,818 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 18,100 | 13.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 602 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 9,964 | 7.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 660 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 236 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 167,517 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,701 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 184,697 | 110.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,405 | 52.0 | Arab | 222 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,208 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,645 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 132,038 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,226 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 26,996 | 20.4 | English | 26,955 | 16.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7,268 | 4.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,419 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 34,574 | 20.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 32,240 | 100.0 | Greek | 544 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,862 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 765 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 89,106 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 22,968 | 13.7 | |
| With a disability | 18,503 | 20.8 | Italian | 7,401 | 4.4 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 421 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 70,603 | 79.2 | Norwegian | 4,893 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 71.1 | (X) | Polish | 4,209 | 2.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 35,226 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 449 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 12,855 | 36.5 | Russian | 1,206 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,434 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,293 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 176 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 158,931 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 91 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 70,108 | 44.1 | Swedish | 4,217 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 86,079 | 54.2 | Swiss | 883 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 34,448 | 21.7 | Ukrainian | 332 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 51,631 | 32.5 | United States or American | 11,565 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 20,461 | 12.9 | Welsh | 2,074 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 31,170 | 19.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 41 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,744 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 35,218 | 21.0 | |
| 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)

