
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Alpine 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 | 1,208 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 296 | 100.0 | Native | 1,169 | 96.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 21 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 1,156 | 95.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 15 | 5.1 | State of residence | 616 | 51.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 127 | 42.9 | Different state | 540 | 44.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 66 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 13 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 67 | 22.6 | Foreign born | 39 | 3.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 797 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 21 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 21 | 2.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 72 | 9.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 207 | 26.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 39 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 223 | 28.0 | Europe | 20 | 51.3 | |
| Associate degree | 49 | 6.1 | Asia | 2 | 5.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 158 | 19.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 67 | 8.4 | Oceania | 4 | 10.3 | |
| Latin America | 13 | 33.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 28.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,147 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,000 | 100.0 | English only | 1,053 | 91.8 | |
| Never married | 348 | 34.8 | Language other than English | 94 | 8.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 444 | 44.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 3.1 | |
| Separated | 19 | 1.9 | Spanish | 40 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 53 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 31 | 3.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 14 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 136 | 13.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 70 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,208 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 35 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,447 | 119.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 23 | 65.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 16 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 933 | 100.0 | Dutch | 22 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 130 | 13.9 | English | 196 | 16.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 27 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 208 | 17.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 291 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 7 | 2.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 737 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 181 | 15.0 | |
| With a disability | 113 | 15.3 | Italian | 78 | 6.5 | |
| Percent employed | 58.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 624 | 84.7 | Norwegian | 13 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 119 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 24 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 62 | 52.1 | Russian | 13 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 36 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 46 | 3.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,147 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 664 | 57.9 | Swedish | 28 | 2.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 470 | 41.0 | Swiss | 9 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 120 | 10.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 350 | 30.5 | United States or American | 69 | 5.7 | |
| Same state | 202 | 17.6 | Welsh | 23 | 1.9 | |
| Different state | 148 | 12.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 13 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 430 | 35.6 | |
| 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)

