
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cassia 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 | 21,416 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,560 | 100.0 | Native | 19,849 | 92.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 323 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 19,753 | 92.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 444 | 6.8 | State of residence | 12,820 | 59.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,431 | 52.3 | Different state | 6,933 | 32.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,766 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 96 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 596 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 1,567 | 7.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 674 | 3.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 410 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,206 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,157 | 5.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,242 | 10.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,572 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,638 | 29.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,567 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,346 | 27.4 | Europe | 98 | 6.3 | |
| Associate degree | 712 | 5.8 | Asia | 27 | 1.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,111 | 9.1 | Africa | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 585 | 4.8 | Oceania | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 1,383 | 88.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.9 | (X) | Northern America | 52 | 3.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,663 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,467 | 100.0 | English only | 16,349 | 83.1 | |
| Never married | 3,128 | 20.2 | Language other than English | 3,314 | 16.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,052 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,484 | 7.5 | |
| Separated | 162 | 1.0 | Spanish | 3,043 | 15.5 | |
| Widowed | 884 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,413 | 7.2 | |
| Female | 711 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 175 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,241 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 653 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,416 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 240 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,004 | 98.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 83 | 34.6 | Arab | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 697 | 3.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,130 | 100.0 | Dutch | 348 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,607 | 11.4 | English | 4,882 | 22.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 362 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 58 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,936 | 13.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,430 | 100.0 | Greek | 39 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 447 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,383 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,194 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,904 | 18.3 | Italian | 375 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 58.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,479 | 81.7 | Norwegian | 362 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 76.8 | (X) | Polish | 108 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,611 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,138 | 43.6 | Russian | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 198 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 626 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,663 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,427 | 58.1 | Swedish | 680 | 3.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,973 | 40.5 | Swiss | 194 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 3,870 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 4,103 | 20.9 | United States or American | 2,280 | 10.6 | |
| Same state | 2,384 | 12.1 | Welsh | 371 | 1.7 | |
| Different state | 1,719 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 263 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 5,119 | 23.9 | |
| 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)

