
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tuolumne 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 | 54,501 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,347 | 100.0 | Native | 52,777 | 96.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 781 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 52,461 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 682 | 5.1 | State of residence | 36,887 | 67.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,059 | 37.9 | Different state | 15,574 | 28.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,000 | 30.0 | Born outside United States | 316 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,825 | 21.2 | Foreign born | 1,724 | 3.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 353 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,075 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 38,977 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 649 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,230 | 3.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,899 | 12.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,579 | 29.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,724 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,084 | 31.0 | Europe | 699 | 40.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,901 | 7.4 | Asia | 320 | 18.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,963 | 10.2 | Africa | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,321 | 6.0 | Oceania | 12 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 442 | 25.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.3 | (X) | Northern America | 242 | 14.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 51,965 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,560 | 100.0 | English only | 48,955 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 8,088 | 17.8 | Language other than English | 3,010 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 27,827 | 61.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 799 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 917 | 2.0 | Spanish | 1,833 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 3,509 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 538 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,437 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 912 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 5,219 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 151 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,822 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 249 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 54,501 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 771 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 58,366 | 107.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 332 | 43.1 | Arab | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 161 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 639 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 43,194 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,369 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,260 | 19.1 | English | 9,206 | 16.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,974 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 310 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,679 | 17.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,487 | 100.0 | Greek | 190 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,018 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 114 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 27,205 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,070 | 14.8 | |
| With a disability | 5,819 | 21.4 | Italian | 3,672 | 6.7 | |
| Percent employed | 44.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 49 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 21,386 | 78.6 | Norwegian | 1,072 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 72.2 | (X) | Polish | 621 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,871 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,654 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,555 | 36.0 | Russian | 295 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,473 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,634 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 26 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 51,965 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,664 | 49.4 | Swedish | 1,734 | 3.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 25,987 | 50.0 | Swiss | 348 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 10,950 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 15,037 | 28.9 | United States or American | 2,626 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 12,306 | 23.7 | Welsh | 684 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 2,731 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 314 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 10,687 | 19.6 | |
| 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)

