DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sacramento 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 | 1,223,499 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 366,459 | 100.0 | Native | 1,026,304 | 83.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 19,243 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 1,010,442 | 82.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 19,634 | 5.4 | State of residence | 701,399 | 57.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 159,337 | 43.5 | Different state | 309,043 | 25.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 74,973 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 15,862 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 93,272 | 25.5 | Foreign born | 197,195 | 16.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 87,136 | 7.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 83,982 | 6.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 772,488 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 113,213 | 9.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 51,674 | 6.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 77,596 | 10.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 176,525 | 22.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 197,195 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 205,947 | 26.7 | Europe | 36,720 | 18.6 | |
| Associate degree | 69,105 | 8.9 | Asia | 89,387 | 45.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 129,263 | 16.7 | Africa | 3,458 | 1.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 62,378 | 8.1 | Oceania | 6,821 | 3.5 | |
| Latin America | 56,877 | 28.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.3 | (X) | Northern America | 3,932 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,136,050 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 939,748 | 100.0 | English only | 859,305 | 75.6 | |
| Never married | 269,176 | 28.6 | Language other than English | 276,745 | 24.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 473,268 | 50.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 133,702 | 11.8 | |
| Separated | 25,406 | 2.7 | Spanish | 113,649 | 10.0 | |
| Widowed | 56,872 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49,698 | 4.4 | |
| Female | 45,801 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 64,428 | 5.7 | |
| Divorced | 115,026 | 12.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30,276 | 2.7 | |
| Female | 68,515 | 7.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 92,627 | 8.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51,902 | 4.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,223,499 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 27,874 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,322,065 | 108.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 10,483 | 37.6 | Arab | 5,199 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 4,441 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8,941 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 885,166 | 100.0 | Dutch | 16,638 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 121,079 | 13.7 | English | 110,454 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 35,960 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6,340 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 157,574 | 12.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 296,054 | 100.0 | Greek | 6,569 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 24,078 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 3,929 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 693,574 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 116,902 | 9.6 | |
| With a disability | 144,190 | 20.8 | Italian | 59,983 | 4.9 | |
| Percent employed | 51.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,534 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 549,384 | 79.2 | Norwegian | 20,504 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 76.4 | (X) | Polish | 15,291 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 130,446 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 18,183 | 1.5 | |
| With a disability | 55,880 | 42.8 | Russian | 15,495 | 1.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 19,151 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 23,084 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 835 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,136,050 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9,655 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 539,171 | 47.5 | Swedish | 19,132 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 555,589 | 48.9 | Swiss | 5,198 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 364,791 | 32.1 | Ukrainian | 13,326 | 1.1 | |
| Different county | 190,798 | 16.8 | United States or American | 52,316 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 141,042 | 12.4 | Welsh | 8,578 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 49,756 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,639 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 41,290 | 3.6 | Other ancestries | 565,214 | 46.2 | |
| 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)
