
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Yuba 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 | 60,219 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,858 | 100.0 | Native | 52,288 | 86.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,020 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 51,440 | 85.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 950 | 5.0 | State of residence | 33,885 | 56.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,712 | 46.2 | Different state | 17,555 | 29.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,444 | 23.6 | Born outside United States | 848 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,732 | 19.8 | Foreign born | 7,931 | 13.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,408 | 5.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,595 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 35,218 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,336 | 8.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,355 | 12.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,569 | 15.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,589 | 27.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 7,931 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,026 | 25.6 | Europe | 817 | 10.3 | |
| Associate degree | 3,042 | 8.6 | Asia | 2,677 | 33.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,400 | 6.8 | Africa | 39 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,237 | 3.5 | Oceania | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 4,240 | 53.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.8 | (X) | Northern America | 145 | 1.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,394 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 44,715 | 100.0 | English only | 43,268 | 78.1 | |
| Never married | 11,044 | 24.7 | Language other than English | 12,126 | 21.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,998 | 53.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,357 | 11.5 | |
| Separated | 1,355 | 3.0 | Spanish | 7,258 | 13.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,870 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,934 | 7.1 | |
| Female | 2,158 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,111 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 5,448 | 12.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 314 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,955 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3,709 | 6.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,101 | 3.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 60,219 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,490 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 61,229 | 101.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 676 | 45.4 | Arab | 71 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 117 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 349 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 39,252 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,068 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,679 | 17.0 | English | 5,183 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,828 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 422 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,842 | 13.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 16,316 | 100.0 | Greek | 162 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,658 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 135 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 30,141 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,914 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 8,830 | 29.3 | Italian | 2,159 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 42.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 50 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 21,311 | 70.7 | Norwegian | 552 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 66.7 | (X) | Polish | 911 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,091 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 681 | 1.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,217 | 52.8 | Russian | 307 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 935 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,287 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 16 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,394 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 156 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,170 | 47.2 | Swedish | 685 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,464 | 49.6 | Swiss | 124 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 13,013 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 29 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 14,451 | 26.1 | United States or American | 4,988 | 8.3 | |
| Same state | 9,681 | 17.5 | Welsh | 299 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,770 | 8.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 71 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,760 | 3.2 | Other ancestries | 24,888 | 41.3 | |
| 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)

