
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Idaho 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 | 15,511 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,608 | 100.0 | Native | 15,330 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 244 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 15,256 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 183 | 5.1 | State of residence | 8,027 | 51.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,756 | 48.7 | Different state | 7,229 | 46.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,141 | 31.6 | Born outside United States | 74 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 284 | 7.9 | Foreign born | 181 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 42 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 95 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,638 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 86 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 671 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,148 | 10.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,072 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 181 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,637 | 24.8 | Europe | 73 | 40.3 | |
| Associate degree | 574 | 5.4 | Asia | 24 | 13.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,133 | 10.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 403 | 3.8 | Oceania | 6 | 3.3 | |
| Latin America | 45 | 24.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.9 | (X) | Northern America | 33 | 18.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,700 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,490 | 100.0 | English only | 14,196 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 2,336 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 504 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,668 | 61.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 125 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 156 | 1.2 | Spanish | 316 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 898 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 731 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 98 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,432 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 613 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,511 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 223 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,536 | 106.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 153 | 68.6 | Arab | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 41 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 161 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,641 | 100.0 | Dutch | 758 | 4.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,211 | 19.0 | English | 2,274 | 14.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 468 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 157 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,666 | 30.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,548 | 100.0 | Greek | 42 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 211 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,245 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,835 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,804 | 21.9 | Italian | 197 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 46.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,441 | 78.1 | Norwegian | 594 | 3.8 | |
| Percent employed | 69.2 | (X) | Polish | 141 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,497 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 995 | 39.8 | Russian | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 366 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 450 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,700 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,623 | 58.7 | Swedish | 517 | 3.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,035 | 41.1 | Swiss | 146 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 2,517 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,518 | 23.9 | United States or American | 1,564 | 10.1 | |
| Same state | 1,503 | 10.2 | Welsh | 159 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 2,015 | 13.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 42 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,882 | 12.1 | |
| 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)

