DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Santa Clara 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 | 1,682,585 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 476,333 | 100.0 | Native | 1,109,455 | 65.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 29,169 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 1,089,436 | 64.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 25,694 | 5.4 | State of residence | 737,130 | 43.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 187,383 | 39.3 | Different state | 352,306 | 20.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 92,486 | 19.4 | Born outside United States | 20,019 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 141,601 | 29.7 | Foreign born | 573,130 | 34.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 265,212 | 15.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 235,952 | 14.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,113,058 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 337,178 | 20.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 89,390 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 95,410 | 8.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 176,926 | 15.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 573,118 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 218,645 | 19.6 | Europe | 57,452 | 10.0 | |
| Associate degree | 82,148 | 7.4 | Asia | 328,431 | 57.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 267,449 | 24.0 | Africa | 8,699 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 183,090 | 16.4 | Oceania | 3,903 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 165,113 | 28.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.4 | (X) | Northern America | 9,520 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 40.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,564,068 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,329,650 | 100.0 | English only | 854,337 | 54.6 | |
| Never married | 401,293 | 30.2 | Language other than English | 709,731 | 45.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 728,986 | 54.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 343,320 | 22.0 | |
| Separated | 23,392 | 1.8 | Spanish | 275,439 | 17.6 | |
| Widowed | 62,320 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 142,627 | 9.1 | |
| Female | 51,383 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 112,351 | 7.2 | |
| Divorced | 113,659 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33,396 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 66,069 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 304,332 | 19.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162,031 | 10.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,682,585 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 46,541 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,792,071 | 106.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 11,912 | 25.6 | Arab | 9,063 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 6,021 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10,776 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,266,214 | 100.0 | Dutch | 17,043 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 105,834 | 8.4 | English | 121,865 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 37,086 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6,844 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 155,601 | 9.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 361,012 | 100.0 | Greek | 7,972 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 23,564 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 5,915 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,036,877 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 120,194 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 170,555 | 16.4 | Italian | 87,487 | 5.2 | |
| Percent employed | 63.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,401 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 866,322 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 21,137 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 25,786 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 154,328 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 29,138 | 1.7 | |
| With a disability | 60,610 | 39.3 | Russian | 20,705 | 1.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 17,968 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 27,508 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,647 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,564,068 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8,500 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 800,247 | 51.2 | Swedish | 23,157 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 639,028 | 40.9 | Swiss | 7,177 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 437,889 | 28.0 | Ukrainian | 4,048 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 201,139 | 12.9 | United States or American | 37,929 | 2.3 | |
| Same state | 118,895 | 7.6 | Welsh | 8,890 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 82,244 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,586 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 124,793 | 8.0 | Other ancestries | 968,627 | 57.6 | |
| 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)
