DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Contra Costa 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 | 948,816 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 270,131 | 100.0 | Native | 768,328 | 81.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 18,809 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 757,959 | 79.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 14,134 | 5.2 | State of residence | 518,090 | 54.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 119,161 | 44.1 | Different state | 239,869 | 25.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 56,052 | 20.7 | Born outside United States | 10,369 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 61,975 | 22.9 | Foreign born | 180,488 | 19.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 66,232 | 7.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 82,317 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 625,641 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 98,171 | 10.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 32,804 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 49,063 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 123,956 | 19.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 180,488 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 152,680 | 24.4 | Europe | 21,866 | 12.1 | |
| Associate degree | 48,090 | 7.7 | Asia | 74,119 | 41.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 142,909 | 22.8 | Africa | 3,666 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 76,139 | 12.2 | Oceania | 2,445 | 1.4 | |
| Latin America | 73,700 | 40.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.9 | (X) | Northern America | 4,692 | 2.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 35.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 883,762 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 737,293 | 100.0 | English only | 654,278 | 74.0 | |
| Never married | 189,832 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 229,484 | 26.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 416,292 | 56.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101,195 | 11.5 | |
| Separated | 13,383 | 1.8 | Spanish | 115,740 | 13.1 | |
| Widowed | 43,390 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58,661 | 6.6 | |
| Female | 35,188 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 42,090 | 4.8 | |
| Divorced | 74,396 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12,407 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 45,387 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 65,950 | 7.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28,793 | 3.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 948,816 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 21,257 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,076,373 | 113.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7,482 | 35.2 | Arab | 5,127 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,969 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9,176 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 697,178 | 100.0 | Dutch | 14,282 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 80,775 | 11.6 | English | 93,947 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 26,933 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,609 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 117,669 | 12.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 218,776 | 100.0 | Greek | 5,177 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 15,112 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 3,816 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 555,146 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 104,858 | 11.1 | |
| With a disability | 91,254 | 16.4 | Italian | 66,945 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 57.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,771 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 463,892 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 17,094 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 17,039 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 103,969 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19,011 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 41,206 | 39.6 | Russian | 12,115 | 1.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 15,261 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 21,408 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 583 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 883,762 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7,529 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 469,796 | 53.2 | Swedish | 19,388 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 381,664 | 43.2 | Swiss | 4,743 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 212,583 | 24.1 | Ukrainian | 2,321 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 169,081 | 19.1 | United States or American | 29,625 | 3.1 | |
| Same state | 128,191 | 14.5 | Welsh | 7,597 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 40,890 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,199 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32,302 | 3.7 | Other ancestries | 443,181 | 46.7 | |
| 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)
