DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Monterey 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 | 401,762 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 117,126 | 100.0 | Native | 285,203 | 71.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 6,020 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 278,779 | 69.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,125 | 6.1 | State of residence | 199,219 | 49.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 53,196 | 45.4 | Different state | 79,560 | 19.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 26,490 | 22.6 | Born outside United States | 6,424 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 24,295 | 20.7 | Foreign born | 116,559 | 29.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 47,584 | 11.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 33,530 | 8.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 244,128 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 83,029 | 20.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 46,033 | 18.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 31,028 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 45,354 | 18.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 116,559 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 50,963 | 20.9 | Europe | 7,473 | 6.4 | |
| Associate degree | 15,811 | 6.5 | Asia | 15,514 | 13.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,641 | 13.8 | Africa | 643 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 21,298 | 8.7 | Oceania | 921 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 90,981 | 78.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.4 | (X) | Northern America | 1,027 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 370,950 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 305,768 | 100.0 | English only | 195,650 | 52.7 | |
| Never married | 84,560 | 27.7 | Language other than English | 175,300 | 47.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 165,158 | 54.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99,255 | 26.8 | |
| Separated | 8,527 | 2.8 | Spanish | 146,443 | 39.5 | |
| Widowed | 16,504 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88,292 | 23.8 | |
| Female | 13,168 | 4.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 11,312 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 31,019 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,893 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 16,624 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15,975 | 4.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,649 | 2.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 401,762 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 11,827 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 399,397 | 99.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,327 | 28.1 | Arab | 1,172 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,325 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,453 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 282,678 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,649 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 31,687 | 11.2 | English | 27,090 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7,648 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,302 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 32,425 | 8.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 100,262 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,006 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 7,774 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 1,293 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 213,879 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 25,247 | 6.3 | |
| With a disability | 46,254 | 21.6 | Italian | 16,470 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 57.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 394 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 167,625 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 4,597 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 71.7 | (X) | Polish | 3,928 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 39,293 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4,687 | 1.2 | |
| With a disability | 15,870 | 40.4 | Russian | 2,337 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,318 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,220 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 278 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 370,950 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,180 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 181,088 | 48.8 | Swedish | 4,311 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 167,029 | 45.0 | Swiss | 3,115 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 105,566 | 28.5 | Ukrainian | 480 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 61,463 | 16.6 | United States or American | 12,162 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 41,250 | 11.1 | Welsh | 1,858 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 20,213 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 214 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22,833 | 6.2 | Other ancestries | 228,238 | 56.8 | |
| 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)
