
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baca 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 | 4,517 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,117 | 100.0 | Native | 4,405 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 96 | 8.6 | Born in United States | 4,388 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 5.9 | State of residence | 2,390 | 52.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 507 | 45.4 | Different state | 1,998 | 44.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 336 | 30.1 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 112 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 112 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 49 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,152 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 63 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 245 | 7.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 433 | 13.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,082 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 112 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 761 | 24.1 | Europe | 13 | 11.6 | |
| Associate degree | 189 | 6.0 | Asia | 13 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 305 | 9.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 137 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 83 | 74.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.5 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,268 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,653 | 100.0 | English only | 4,020 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 623 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 248 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,303 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 63 | 1.7 | Spanish | 200 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 332 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 254 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 32 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 332 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 167 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,517 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 47 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,724 | 82.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 27 | 57.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,412 | 100.0 | Dutch | 90 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 462 | 13.5 | English | 446 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 92 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 662 | 14.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 982 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 49 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,261 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 514 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 460 | 20.3 | Italian | 65 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 52.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,801 | 79.7 | Norwegian | 52 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.8 | (X) | Polish | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 940 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 396 | 42.1 | Russian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 119 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 83 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,268 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,694 | 63.1 | Swedish | 89 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,541 | 36.1 | Swiss | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 799 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 742 | 17.4 | United States or American | 761 | 16.8 | |
| Same state | 203 | 4.8 | Welsh | 23 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 539 | 12.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 33 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 680 | 15.1 | |
| 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)

