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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ouray 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 3,742 100.0
      enrolled in school 779 100.0   Native 3,622 96.8
Nursery school, preschool 59 7.6       Born in United States 3,589 95.9
Kindergarten 43 5.5           State of residence 1,164 31.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 400 51.3           Different state 2,425 64.8
High school (grades 9-12) 221 28.4       Born outside United States 33 0.9
College or graduate school 56 7.2   Foreign born 120 3.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 37 1.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 66 1.8
  Population 25 years and over 2,741 100.0       Not a citizen 54 1.4
Less than 9th grade 62 2.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 120 4.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 591 21.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 120 100.0
Some college, no degree 777 28.3   Europe 68 56.7
Associate degree 181 6.6   Asia 11 9.2
Bachelor's degree 644 23.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 366 13.4   Oceania 4 3.3
        Latin America 33 27.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 93.4 (X)   Northern America 4 3.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 36.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,559 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,045 100.0   English only 3,356 94.3
Never married 543 17.8   Language other than English 203 5.7
Now married, except separated 2,000 65.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 49 1.4
Separated 28 0.9   Spanish 141 4.0
Widowed 126 4.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 41 1.2
 Female 112 3.7   Other Indo-European languages 56 1.6
Divorced 348 11.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.2
 Female 183 6.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 6 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 3,742 100.0
           under 18 years 41 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,324 115.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 7 17.1   Arab 7 0.2
        Czech¹ 28 0.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 44 1.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,899 100.0   Dutch 101 2.7
Civilian veterans 471 16.2   English 686 18.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 141 3.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 29 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 872 23.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 744 100.0   Greek 9 0.2
With a disability 33 4.4   Hungarian 11 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,353 100.0   Irish¹ 600 16.0
With a disability 305 13.0   Italian 168 4.5
 Percent employed 60.3 (X)   Lithuanian 13 0.3
No disability 2,048 87.0   Norwegian 93 2.5
 Percent employed 72.7 (X)   Polish 75 2.0
     Population 65 years and over 444 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 124 27.9   Russian 39 1.0
        Scotch-Irish 111 3.0
        Scottish 147 3.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,559 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,641 46.1   Swedish 177 4.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,886 53.0   Swiss 54 1.4
 Same county 499 14.0   Ukrainian 13 0.3
 Different county 1,387 39.0   United States or American 292 7.8
  Same state 555 15.6   Welsh 29 0.8
  Different state 832 23.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 32 0.9   Other ancestries 585 15.6
 
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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