
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Moffat 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 | 13,184 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,639 | 100.0 | Native | 12,638 | 95.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 308 | 8.5 | Born in United States | 12,604 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 135 | 3.7 | State of residence | 6,817 | 51.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,766 | 48.5 | Different state | 5,787 | 43.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 934 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 34 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 496 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 546 | 4.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 345 | 2.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 115 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,404 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 431 | 3.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 567 | 6.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,146 | 13.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,812 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 546 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,348 | 27.9 | Europe | 75 | 13.7 | |
| Associate degree | 484 | 5.8 | Asia | 15 | 2.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 708 | 8.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 339 | 4.0 | Oceania | 11 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 422 | 77.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.6 | (X) | Northern America | 23 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,318 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,159 | 100.0 | English only | 11,287 | 91.6 | |
| Never married | 2,076 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 1,031 | 8.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,182 | 60.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 473 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 196 | 1.9 | Spanish | 876 | 7.1 | |
| Widowed | 485 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 439 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 365 | 3.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 131 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,220 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 610 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,184 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 182 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,566 | 102.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 106 | 58.2 | Arab | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 115 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 110 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,462 | 100.0 | Dutch | 279 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,514 | 16.0 | English | 1,882 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 469 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,694 | 20.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,343 | 100.0 | Greek | 221 | 1.7 | |
| With a disability | 218 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,660 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,605 | 12.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,294 | 16.9 | Italian | 589 | 4.5 | |
| Percent employed | 50.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,366 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 332 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 82.8 | (X) | Polish | 266 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,228 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 593 | 48.3 | Russian | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 168 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 254 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 61 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,318 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,094 | 49.5 | Swedish | 249 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,070 | 49.3 | Swiss | 45 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,596 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,474 | 28.2 | United States or American | 1,446 | 11.0 | |
| Same state | 1,661 | 13.5 | Welsh | 110 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,813 | 14.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 154 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 2,469 | 18.7 | |
| 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
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