
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Calaveras 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 | 40,554 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,406 | 100.0 | Native | 39,335 | 97.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 383 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 38,957 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 344 | 3.7 | State of residence | 27,265 | 67.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,697 | 49.9 | Different state | 11,692 | 28.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,556 | 27.2 | Born outside United States | 378 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,426 | 15.2 | Foreign born | 1,219 | 3.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 161 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 730 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,201 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 489 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 849 | 2.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,327 | 11.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,346 | 28.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,219 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,027 | 30.9 | Europe | 437 | 35.8 | |
| Associate degree | 2,656 | 9.1 | Asia | 181 | 14.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,353 | 11.5 | Africa | 17 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,643 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 385 | 31.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 199 | 16.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,831 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,232 | 100.0 | English only | 36,417 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 5,474 | 16.5 | Language other than English | 2,414 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,605 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 616 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 643 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,568 | 4.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,457 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 430 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,869 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 702 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,053 | 12.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 134 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,245 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,554 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 761 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 45,158 | 111.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 397 | 52.2 | Arab | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 151 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 375 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,343 | 100.0 | Dutch | 904 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,577 | 21.0 | English | 6,334 | 15.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,723 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 367 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,590 | 18.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,565 | 100.0 | Greek | 239 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 728 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 183 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,667 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,651 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 4,995 | 22.0 | Italian | 2,910 | 7.2 | |
| Percent employed | 42.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 66 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 17,672 | 78.0 | Norwegian | 1,030 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 69.4 | (X) | Polish | 698 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,244 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,122 | 2.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,476 | 34.2 | Russian | 213 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,085 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,232 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 136 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,831 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,350 | 55.0 | Swedish | 1,055 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,266 | 44.5 | Swiss | 331 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 6,125 | 15.8 | Ukrainian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 11,141 | 28.7 | United States or American | 2,215 | 5.5 | |
| Same state | 9,766 | 25.2 | Welsh | 425 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 1,375 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 215 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 8,966 | 22.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||

