
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baker 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 | 22,259 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,495 | 100.0 | Native | 22,009 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 263 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 21,866 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 286 | 5.2 | State of residence | 15,495 | 69.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,950 | 53.7 | Different state | 6,371 | 28.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,273 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 143 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 723 | 13.2 | Foreign born | 250 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 83 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 104 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,953 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 146 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,164 | 8.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,758 | 19.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,780 | 41.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 250 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,144 | 15.4 | Europe | 71 | 28.4 | |
| Associate degree | 964 | 6.9 | Asia | 32 | 12.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 744 | 5.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 399 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 112 | 44.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.9 | (X) | Northern America | 35 | 14.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,670 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,199 | 100.0 | English only | 19,868 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 3,361 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 802 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,669 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 261 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 396 | 2.3 | Spanish | 532 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 835 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 194 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 677 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 190 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,938 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 903 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,259 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 654 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,774 | 75.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 417 | 63.8 | Arab | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,092 | 100.0 | Dutch | 245 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,423 | 15.1 | English | 1,627 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 374 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 96 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,399 | 6.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,394 | 100.0 | Greek | 44 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 437 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,389 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,977 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,699 | 23.7 | Italian | 390 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 46.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,690 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 85 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 152 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,818 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 36 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 879 | 48.3 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 291 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 444 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,670 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 215 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,204 | 59.0 | Swedish | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,352 | 40.4 | Swiss | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,388 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,964 | 24.0 | United States or American | 4,905 | 22.0 | |
| Same state | 3,752 | 18.2 | Welsh | 85 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,212 | 5.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 114 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 4,259 | 19.1 | |
| 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)

