
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Park 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 | 14,523 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,289 | 100.0 | Native | 14,206 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 268 | 8.1 | Born in United States | 14,088 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 221 | 6.7 | State of residence | 4,861 | 33.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,541 | 46.9 | Different state | 9,227 | 63.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 827 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 118 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 432 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 317 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 103 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 208 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,371 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 109 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 83 | 0.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 607 | 5.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,772 | 26.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 317 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,862 | 27.6 | Europe | 181 | 57.1 | |
| Associate degree | 907 | 8.7 | Asia | 38 | 12.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,349 | 22.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 791 | 7.6 | Oceania | 9 | 2.8 | |
| Latin America | 26 | 8.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.3 | (X) | Northern America | 63 | 19.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,654 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,698 | 100.0 | English only | 13,075 | 95.8 | |
| Never married | 2,276 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 579 | 4.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,769 | 66.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 197 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 85 | 0.7 | Spanish | 344 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 320 | 2.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 218 | 1.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 217 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,248 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 589 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 14,523 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 139 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,315 | 112.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 109 | 78.4 | Arab | 66 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 191 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 156 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,091 | 100.0 | Dutch | 414 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,126 | 19.2 | English | 1,932 | 13.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 577 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 153 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,036 | 27.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,895 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 207 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,607 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,231 | 15.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,378 | 14.3 | Italian | 832 | 5.7 | |
| Percent employed | 60.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 8,229 | 85.7 | Norwegian | 491 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 300 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,082 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 25 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 335 | 31.0 | Russian | 122 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 362 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 438 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 60 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,654 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,670 | 41.5 | Swedish | 352 | 2.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,833 | 57.4 | Swiss | 85 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,296 | 9.5 | Ukrainian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,537 | 47.9 | United States or American | 931 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 3,906 | 28.6 | Welsh | 217 | 1.5 | |
| Different state | 2,631 | 19.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 151 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 2,200 | 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)

