
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tehama 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 | 56,039 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,427 | 100.0 | Native | 51,615 | 92.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 780 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 51,237 | 91.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 900 | 5.8 | State of residence | 36,126 | 64.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,159 | 46.4 | Different state | 15,111 | 27.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,087 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 378 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,501 | 16.2 | Foreign born | 4,424 | 7.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,703 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,378 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 36,261 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,046 | 5.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,969 | 8.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,857 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,167 | 30.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,424 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,588 | 26.4 | Europe | 416 | 9.4 | |
| Associate degree | 2,587 | 7.1 | Asia | 201 | 4.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,024 | 8.3 | Africa | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,069 | 2.9 | Oceania | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3,590 | 81.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.7 | (X) | Northern America | 201 | 4.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 52,486 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 43,548 | 100.0 | English only | 44,908 | 85.6 | |
| Never married | 9,448 | 21.7 | Language other than English | 7,578 | 14.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 24,641 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,024 | 7.7 | |
| Separated | 1,039 | 2.4 | Spanish | 6,808 | 13.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,287 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,867 | 7.4 | |
| Female | 2,660 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 551 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 5,133 | 11.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,740 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 160 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 56,039 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,174 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 58,290 | 104.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 569 | 48.5 | Arab | 86 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 181 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 421 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 40,647 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,197 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,186 | 17.7 | English | 6,829 | 12.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,150 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 415 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,272 | 16.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,775 | 100.0 | Greek | 207 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,207 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 133 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 29,351 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,033 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 6,842 | 23.3 | Italian | 1,961 | 3.5 | |
| Percent employed | 39.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 54 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 22,509 | 76.7 | Norwegian | 1,145 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 69.7 | (X) | Polish | 632 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,729 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,104 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,913 | 44.8 | Russian | 205 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,230 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,390 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 25 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 52,486 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,568 | 52.5 | Swedish | 1,094 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 24,304 | 46.3 | Swiss | 331 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 12,474 | 23.8 | Ukrainian | 51 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 11,830 | 22.5 | United States or American | 4,154 | 7.4 | |
| Same state | 9,791 | 18.7 | Welsh | 510 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 2,039 | 3.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 614 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 16,397 | 29.3 | |
| 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)

