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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Inyo 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 17,945 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,326 100.0   Native 16,578 92.4
Nursery school, preschool 320 7.4       Born in United States 16,422 91.5
Kindergarten 172 4.0           State of residence 11,233 62.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,158 49.9           Different state 5,189 28.9
High school (grades 9-12) 1,130 26.1       Born outside United States 156 0.9
College or graduate school 546 12.6   Foreign born 1,367 7.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 502 2.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 530 3.0
  Population 25 years and over 12,566 100.0       Not a citizen 837 4.7
Less than 9th grade 546 4.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,674 13.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,934 31.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,367 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,294 26.2   Europe 186 13.6
Associate degree 965 7.7   Asia 185 13.5
Bachelor's degree 1,321 10.5   Africa 11 0.8
Graduate or professional degree 832 6.6   Oceania 10 0.7
        Latin America 888 65.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.3 (X)   Northern America 87 6.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 16,962 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 14,410 100.0   English only 14,960 88.2
Never married 2,951 20.5   Language other than English 2,002 11.8
Now married, except separated 8,077 56.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 964 5.7
Separated 319 2.2   Spanish 1,565 9.2
Widowed 1,289 8.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 804 4.7
 Female 1,008 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 217 1.3
Divorced 1,774 12.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 59 0.3
 Female 875 6.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 101 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 79 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 17,945 100.0
           under 18 years 231 100.0     Total ancestries reported 21,541 120.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 153 66.2   Arab 14 0.1
        Czech¹ 75 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 178 1.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 13,556 100.0   Dutch 554 3.1
Civilian veterans 2,329 17.2   English 2,990 16.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 759 4.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 102 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,787 21.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,956 100.0   Greek 35 0.2
With a disability 281 7.1   Hungarian 49 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 9,539 100.0   Irish¹ 2,606 14.5
With a disability 1,740 18.2   Italian 646 3.6
 Percent employed 57.8 (X)   Lithuanian 41 0.2
No disability 7,799 81.8   Norwegian 314 1.7
 Percent employed 77.3 (X)   Polish 302 1.7
     Population 65 years and over 3,336 100.0   Portuguese 60 0.3
With a disability 1,191 35.7   Russian 115 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 548 3.1
        Scottish 665 3.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 16,962 100.0   Subsaharan African 4 0.0
Same house in 1995 9,213 54.3   Swedish 637 3.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,534 44.4   Swiss 174 1.0
 Same county 4,080 24.1   Ukrainian 7 0.0
 Different county 3,454 20.4   United States or American 781 4.4
  Same state 2,556 15.1   Welsh 263 1.5
  Different state 898 5.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 16 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 215 1.3   Other ancestries 5,813 32.4
 
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.
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