DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Placer 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 | 248,399 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 69,856 | 100.0 | Native | 230,837 | 92.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,707 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 228,186 | 91.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,022 | 5.8 | State of residence | 153,334 | 61.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 30,748 | 44.0 | Different state | 74,852 | 30.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 15,651 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 2,651 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 14,728 | 21.1 | Foreign born | 17,562 | 7.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5,999 | 2.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8,402 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 165,894 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,160 | 3.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,178 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,657 | 6.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 35,327 | 21.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 17,562 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 48,584 | 29.3 | Europe | 4,585 | 26.1 | |
| Associate degree | 15,922 | 9.6 | Asia | 4,544 | 25.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 34,394 | 20.7 | Africa | 368 | 2.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 15,832 | 9.5 | Oceania | 137 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 6,591 | 37.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.5 | (X) | Northern America | 1,337 | 7.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 232,679 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 194,334 | 100.0 | English only | 208,034 | 89.4 | |
| Never married | 41,764 | 21.5 | Language other than English | 24,645 | 10.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 118,154 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,049 | 4.3 | |
| Separated | 3,277 | 1.7 | Spanish | 13,810 | 5.9 | |
| Widowed | 11,188 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,459 | 2.8 | |
| Female | 8,993 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 6,610 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 19,951 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,762 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 11,964 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3,664 | 1.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,677 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 248,399 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,830 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 283,399 | 114.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,629 | 42.5 | Arab | 889 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,510 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,917 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 182,710 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,107 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 29,060 | 15.9 | English | 37,138 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10,194 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,915 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 47,380 | 19.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 58,054 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,132 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,666 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 1,449 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 141,377 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 35,483 | 14.3 | |
| With a disability | 22,190 | 15.7 | Italian | 18,152 | 7.3 | |
| Percent employed | 59.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 495 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 119,187 | 84.3 | Norwegian | 6,458 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 78.8 | (X) | Polish | 4,414 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 31,176 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5,029 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 12,051 | 38.7 | Russian | 2,485 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,305 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,129 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 181 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 232,679 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 229 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 110,207 | 47.4 | Swedish | 7,017 | 2.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 118,631 | 51.0 | Swiss | 1,494 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 45,029 | 19.4 | Ukrainian | 962 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 73,602 | 31.6 | United States or American | 14,113 | 5.7 | |
| Same state | 58,736 | 25.2 | Welsh | 2,547 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 14,866 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 231 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,841 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 62,044 | 25.0 | |
| 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)
