DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Boulder 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 | 291,288 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 90,124 | 100.0 | Native | 264,009 | 90.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,709 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 260,388 | 89.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,983 | 4.4 | State of residence | 89,610 | 30.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 30,528 | 33.9 | Different state | 170,778 | 58.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,247 | 15.8 | Born outside United States | 3,621 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 35,657 | 39.6 | Foreign born | 27,279 | 9.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15,541 | 5.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,923 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 186,126 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19,356 | 6.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,582 | 3.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,822 | 4.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 28,064 | 15.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 27,279 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 36,520 | 19.6 | Europe | 6,036 | 22.1 | |
| Associate degree | 10,639 | 5.7 | Asia | 7,242 | 26.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 58,012 | 31.2 | Africa | 690 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 39,487 | 21.2 | Oceania | 285 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 11,696 | 42.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 92.8 | (X) | Northern America | 1,330 | 4.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 52.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 273,719 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 235,422 | 100.0 | English only | 236,441 | 86.4 | |
| Never married | 77,346 | 32.9 | Language other than English | 37,278 | 13.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 122,628 | 52.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,949 | 5.8 | |
| Separated | 2,864 | 1.2 | Spanish | 21,404 | 7.8 | |
| Widowed | 8,751 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,011 | 4.0 | |
| Female | 7,251 | 3.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,891 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 23,833 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,983 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 13,836 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,785 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,637 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 291,288 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,722 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 344,670 | 118.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,031 | 37.9 | Arab | 1,124 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,776 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,867 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 224,624 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,907 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 22,437 | 10.0 | English | 43,429 | 14.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10,257 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,393 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 70,258 | 24.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 66,267 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,094 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,998 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 2,049 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 183,894 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 40,358 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 20,200 | 11.0 | Italian | 15,389 | 5.3 | |
| Percent employed | 65.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 939 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 163,694 | 89.0 | Norwegian | 8,879 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 81.9 | (X) | Polish | 9,939 | 3.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 21,710 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 557 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 8,016 | 36.9 | Russian | 5,340 | 1.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,572 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,447 | 3.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 741 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 273,719 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 717 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 111,560 | 40.8 | Swedish | 9,327 | 3.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 151,577 | 55.4 | Swiss | 2,041 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 66,652 | 24.4 | Ukrainian | 1,144 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 84,925 | 31.0 | United States or American | 11,671 | 4.0 | |
| Same state | 27,276 | 10.0 | Welsh | 3,803 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 57,649 | 21.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 205 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10,582 | 3.9 | Other ancestries | 71,447 | 24.5 | |
| 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)
