
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Miguel 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 | 6,594 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,155 | 100.0 | Native | 6,114 | 92.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 100 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 6,068 | 92.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 4.3 | State of residence | 1,588 | 24.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 565 | 48.9 | Different state | 4,480 | 67.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 258 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 46 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 182 | 15.8 | Foreign born | 480 | 7.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 286 | 4.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 84 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,762 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 396 | 6.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 117 | 2.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 186 | 3.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 717 | 15.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 480 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,217 | 25.6 | Europe | 131 | 27.3 | |
| Associate degree | 217 | 4.6 | Asia | 44 | 9.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,741 | 36.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 567 | 11.9 | Oceania | 16 | 3.3 | |
| Latin America | 264 | 55.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.6 | (X) | Northern America | 25 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 48.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,305 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,628 | 100.0 | English only | 5,621 | 89.2 | |
| Never married | 2,311 | 41.1 | Language other than English | 684 | 10.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,502 | 44.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 284 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 125 | 2.2 | Spanish | 464 | 7.4 | |
| Widowed | 105 | 1.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 271 | 4.3 | |
| Female | 86 | 1.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 186 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 585 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 294 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 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 | 6,594 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 28 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,231 | 109.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 17 | 60.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 46 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 35 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,430 | 100.0 | Dutch | 98 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 478 | 8.8 | English | 952 | 14.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 297 | 4.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 73 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,156 | 17.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,073 | 100.0 | Greek | 43 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 44 | 4.1 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,991 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 914 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 379 | 7.6 | Italian | 465 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 48 | 0.7 | |
| No disability | 4,612 | 92.4 | Norwegian | 162 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 86.6 | (X) | Polish | 132 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 224 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 78 | 34.8 | Russian | 176 | 2.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 163 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 254 | 3.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,305 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,226 | 35.3 | Swedish | 245 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,846 | 61.0 | Swiss | 61 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 1,422 | 22.6 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,424 | 38.4 | United States or American | 483 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 696 | 11.0 | Welsh | 54 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,728 | 27.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 233 | 3.7 | Other ancestries | 1,314 | 19.9 | |
| 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)

