DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kern 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 | 661,645 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 205,960 | 100.0 | Native | 549,701 | 83.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 10,103 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 538,187 | 81.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 11,992 | 5.8 | State of residence | 397,113 | 60.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 98,883 | 48.0 | Different state | 141,074 | 21.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 50,421 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 11,514 | 1.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 34,561 | 16.8 | Foreign born | 111,944 | 16.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41,752 | 6.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 33,590 | 5.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 383,667 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 78,354 | 11.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 57,706 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 63,275 | 16.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 97,344 | 25.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 111,944 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 88,776 | 23.1 | Europe | 3,744 | 3.3 | |
| Associate degree | 24,697 | 6.4 | Asia | 15,668 | 14.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 34,739 | 9.1 | Africa | 814 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 17,130 | 4.5 | Oceania | 274 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 89,743 | 80.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.5 | (X) | Northern America | 1,701 | 1.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 606,633 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 484,825 | 100.0 | English only | 404,239 | 66.6 | |
| Never married | 120,934 | 24.9 | Language other than English | 202,394 | 33.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 275,209 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101,022 | 16.7 | |
| Separated | 13,120 | 2.7 | Spanish | 175,849 | 29.0 | |
| Widowed | 29,590 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89,601 | 14.8 | |
| Female | 21,420 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,444 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 45,972 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,950 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 26,283 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15,525 | 2.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,480 | 1.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 661,645 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 18,671 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 617,827 | 93.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8,273 | 44.3 | Arab | 2,030 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,202 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,175 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 447,435 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,593 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 54,403 | 12.2 | English | 44,904 | 6.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,049 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,390 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 62,572 | 9.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 183,308 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,324 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 15,912 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 787 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 333,186 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 47,601 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 85,318 | 25.6 | Italian | 15,964 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 47.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 306 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 247,868 | 74.4 | Norwegian | 5,958 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 67.8 | (X) | Polish | 4,576 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 60,264 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,476 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 28,394 | 47.1 | Russian | 1,741 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,006 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 8,806 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 191 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 606,633 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,218 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 286,630 | 47.2 | Swedish | 6,437 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 298,136 | 49.1 | Swiss | 1,216 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 211,684 | 34.9 | Ukrainian | 398 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 86,452 | 14.3 | United States or American | 37,362 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 63,403 | 10.5 | Welsh | 3,279 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 23,049 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 479 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 21,867 | 3.6 | Other ancestries | 331,787 | 50.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
