
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Joaquin 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 | 563,598 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 176,188 | 100.0 | Native | 453,786 | 80.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 9,245 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 449,075 | 79.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,916 | 5.6 | State of residence | 342,645 | 60.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 82,511 | 46.8 | Different state | 106,430 | 18.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 41,429 | 23.5 | Born outside United States | 4,711 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 33,087 | 18.8 | Foreign born | 109,812 | 19.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 40,725 | 7.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 39,437 | 7.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 333,572 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 70,375 | 12.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 44,400 | 13.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 51,553 | 15.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 84,162 | 25.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 109,812 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 79,592 | 23.9 | Europe | 6,385 | 5.8 | |
| Associate degree | 25,397 | 7.6 | Asia | 40,444 | 36.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,876 | 10.2 | Africa | 763 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 14,592 | 4.4 | Oceania | 1,016 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 59,864 | 54.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.2 | (X) | Northern America | 1,340 | 1.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 519,445 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 418,168 | 100.0 | English only | 344,240 | 66.3 | |
| Never married | 108,992 | 26.1 | Language other than English | 175,205 | 33.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 234,413 | 56.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90,178 | 17.4 | |
| Separated | 9,721 | 2.3 | Spanish | 110,158 | 21.2 | |
| Widowed | 25,499 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 56,753 | 10.9 | |
| Female | 20,498 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 18,000 | 3.5 | |
| Divorced | 39,543 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,406 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 22,890 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 45,066 | 8.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26,407 | 5.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 563,598 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 16,757 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 575,856 | 102.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,666 | 39.8 | Arab | 2,568 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,409 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,124 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 389,156 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,928 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 44,426 | 11.4 | English | 36,104 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 11,551 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,841 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 62,890 | 11.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 154,868 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,244 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 12,020 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 994 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 296,375 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 41,253 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 69,947 | 23.6 | Italian | 28,138 | 5.0 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 290 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 226,428 | 76.4 | Norwegian | 7,281 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 70.7 | (X) | Polish | 3,805 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 56,724 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16,641 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 26,689 | 47.1 | Russian | 2,052 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,989 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,324 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 214 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 519,445 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,529 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 265,918 | 51.2 | Swedish | 6,866 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 237,699 | 45.8 | Swiss | 1,983 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 151,108 | 29.1 | Ukrainian | 460 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 86,591 | 16.7 | United States or American | 19,338 | 3.4 | |
| Same state | 71,847 | 13.8 | Welsh | 2,540 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 14,744 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 424 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 15,828 | 3.0 | Other ancestries | 296,076 | 52.5 | |
| 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)

