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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montrose 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 33,432 100.0
      enrolled in school 7,732 100.0   Native 31,569 94.4
Nursery school, preschool 454 5.9       Born in United States 31,416 94.0
Kindergarten 668 8.6           State of residence 16,589 49.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,992 51.6           Different state 14,827 44.3
High school (grades 9-12) 2,120 27.4       Born outside United States 153 0.5
College or graduate school 498 6.4   Foreign born 1,863 5.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 895 2.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 464 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 22,089 100.0       Not a citizen 1,399 4.2
Less than 9th grade 1,618 7.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,656 12.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 7,373 33.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,863 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,264 23.8   Europe 151 8.1
Associate degree 1,057 4.8   Asia 89 4.8
Bachelor's degree 2,933 13.3   Africa 19 1.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,188 5.4   Oceania 12 0.6
        Latin America 1,553 83.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.7 (X)   Northern America 39 2.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 31,229 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 26,138 100.0   English only 27,616 88.4
Never married 4,813 18.4   Language other than English 3,613 11.6
Now married, except separated 15,884 60.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,686 5.4
Separated 289 1.1   Spanish 3,131 10.0
Widowed 2,049 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,544 4.9
 Female 1,612 6.2   Other Indo-European languages 329 1.1
Divorced 3,103 11.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 85 0.3
 Female 1,754 6.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 43 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 33,432 100.0
           under 18 years 449 100.0     Total ancestries reported 32,800 98.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 256 57.0   Arab 20 0.1
        Czech¹ 247 0.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 317 0.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 24,431 100.0   Dutch 724 2.2
Civilian veterans 3,936 16.1   English 4,692 14.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 832 2.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 261 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,446 19.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,992 100.0   Greek 37 0.1
With a disability 580 7.3   Hungarian 19 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 17,982 100.0   Irish¹ 3,690 11.0
With a disability 3,445 19.2   Italian 1,177 3.5
 Percent employed 56.3 (X)   Lithuanian 44 0.1
No disability 14,537 80.8   Norwegian 458 1.4
 Percent employed 78.5 (X)   Polish 514 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 5,034 100.0   Portuguese 63 0.2
With a disability 2,161 42.9   Russian 106 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 791 2.4
        Scottish 823 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 32 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 31,229 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 15,183 48.6   Swedish 1,010 3.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 15,656 50.1   Swiss 124 0.4
 Same county 6,771 21.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 8,885 28.5   United States or American 2,616 7.8
  Same state 4,648 14.9   Welsh 282 0.8
  Different state 4,237 13.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 17 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 390 1.2   Other ancestries 7,458 22.3
 
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.
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