DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Prowers 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 | 14,483 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,102 | 100.0 | Native | 12,947 | 89.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 339 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 12,899 | 89.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 256 | 6.2 | State of residence | 8,446 | 58.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,989 | 48.5 | Different state | 4,453 | 30.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 919 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 48 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 599 | 14.6 | Foreign born | 1,536 | 10.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 918 | 6.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 285 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,545 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,251 | 8.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,273 | 14.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,121 | 13.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,468 | 28.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,536 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,974 | 23.1 | Europe | 68 | 4.4 | |
| Associate degree | 693 | 8.1 | Asia | 47 | 3.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 640 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 376 | 4.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,403 | 91.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.0 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 1.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,323 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,879 | 100.0 | English only | 10,076 | 75.6 | |
| Never married | 2,279 | 20.9 | Language other than English | 3,247 | 24.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,813 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,542 | 11.6 | |
| Separated | 130 | 1.2 | Spanish | 3,078 | 23.1 | |
| Widowed | 668 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,491 | 11.2 | |
| Female | 598 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 133 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 989 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 505 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,483 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 304 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,157 | 90.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 163 | 53.6 | Arab | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 75 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 127 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,136 | 100.0 | Dutch | 361 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,037 | 10.2 | English | 1,445 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 166 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 35 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,451 | 16.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,920 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 308 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,474 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,129 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,526 | 20.4 | Italian | 252 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 57.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,948 | 79.6 | Norwegian | 179 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 81.8 | (X) | Polish | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,728 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 824 | 47.7 | Russian | 53 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 219 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 165 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,323 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,890 | 51.7 | Swedish | 141 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,904 | 44.3 | Swiss | 53 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 3,376 | 25.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,528 | 19.0 | United States or American | 1,178 | 8.1 | |
| Same state | 1,203 | 9.0 | Welsh | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,325 | 9.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 529 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 4,995 | 34.5 | |
| 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
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