
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bear Lake 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 | 6,411 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,933 | 100.0 | Native | 6,339 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 108 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 6,315 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 6.1 | State of residence | 3,811 | 59.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 977 | 50.5 | Different state | 2,504 | 39.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 630 | 32.6 | Born outside United States | 24 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 101 | 5.2 | Foreign born | 72 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 32 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 26 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,837 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 46 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 142 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 416 | 10.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,616 | 42.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 72 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,005 | 26.2 | Europe | 24 | 33.3 | |
| Associate degree | 209 | 5.4 | Asia | 2 | 2.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 335 | 8.7 | Africa | 3 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 114 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 38 | 52.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.5 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 6.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,985 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,797 | 100.0 | English only | 5,763 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 937 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 222 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,146 | 65.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 29 | 0.6 | Spanish | 172 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 354 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 283 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 41 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 331 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 156 | 3.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 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 | 6,411 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 39 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,566 | 102.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 28 | 71.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 30 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 493 | 7.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,307 | 100.0 | Dutch | 90 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 629 | 14.6 | English | 1,924 | 30.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 93 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 24 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 679 | 10.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,918 | 100.0 | Greek | 16 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 87 | 4.5 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,057 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 271 | 4.2 | |
| With a disability | 505 | 16.5 | Italian | 110 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 41.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,552 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 179 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 74.6 | (X) | Polish | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 973 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 429 | 44.1 | Russian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 22 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 191 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,985 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,838 | 64.1 | Swedish | 338 | 5.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,139 | 35.7 | Swiss | 453 | 7.1 | |
| Same county | 1,051 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,088 | 18.2 | United States or American | 788 | 12.3 | |
| Same state | 251 | 4.2 | Welsh | 138 | 2.2 | |
| Different state | 837 | 14.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 684 | 10.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

