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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Saguache 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 5,917 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,558 100.0   Native 5,060 85.5
Nursery school, preschool 115 7.4       Born in United States 5,017 84.8
Kindergarten 107 6.9           State of residence 3,133 52.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 759 48.7           Different state 1,884 31.8
High school (grades 9-12) 411 26.4       Born outside United States 43 0.7
College or graduate school 166 10.7   Foreign born 857 14.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 456 7.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 191 3.2
  Population 25 years and over 3,760 100.0       Not a citizen 666 11.3
Less than 9th grade 648 17.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 480 12.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 933 24.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 857 100.0
Some college, no degree 819 21.8   Europe 31 3.6
Associate degree 142 3.8   Asia 22 2.6
Bachelor's degree 459 12.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 279 7.4   Oceania 9 1.1
        Latin America 788 91.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.0 (X)   Northern America 7 0.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,515 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,561 100.0   English only 3,503 63.5
Never married 1,063 23.3   Language other than English 2,012 36.5
Now married, except separated 2,549 55.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 931 16.9
Separated 114 2.5   Spanish 1,922 34.9
Widowed 254 5.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 911 16.5
 Female 205 4.5   Other Indo-European languages 59 1.1
Divorced 581 12.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.1
 Female 283 6.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 15 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,917 100.0
           under 18 years 121 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,641 95.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 65 53.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 36 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 66 1.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,238 100.0   Dutch 92 1.6
Civilian veterans 550 13.0   English 539 9.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 126 2.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 11 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 804 13.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,488 100.0   Greek 5 0.1
With a disability 97 6.5   Hungarian 18 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,385 100.0   Irish¹ 340 5.7
With a disability 797 23.5   Italian 109 1.8
 Percent employed 49.6 (X)   Lithuanian 8 0.1
No disability 2,588 76.5   Norwegian 108 1.8
 Percent employed 70.8 (X)   Polish 66 1.1
     Population 65 years and over 625 100.0   Portuguese 10 0.2
With a disability 264 42.2   Russian 45 0.8
        Scotch-Irish 102 1.7
        Scottish 79 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,515 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,802 50.8   Swedish 95 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,563 46.5   Swiss 30 0.5
 Same county 992 18.0   Ukrainian 5 0.1
 Different county 1,571 28.5   United States or American 281 4.7
  Same state 924 16.8   Welsh 17 0.3
  Different state 647 11.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 150 2.7   Other ancestries 2,644 44.7
 
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.
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