
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kootenai 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 | 108,685 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,610 | 100.0 | Native | 106,087 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,778 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 105,262 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,604 | 5.6 | State of residence | 33,732 | 31.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,674 | 47.8 | Different state | 71,530 | 65.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,482 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 825 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,072 | 17.7 | Foreign born | 2,598 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 617 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,464 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 69,872 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,134 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,160 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,717 | 9.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 21,147 | 30.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,598 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 20,685 | 29.6 | Europe | 1,023 | 39.4 | |
| Associate degree | 5,832 | 8.3 | Asia | 385 | 14.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 9,117 | 13.0 | Africa | 17 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 4,214 | 6.0 | Oceania | 75 | 2.9 | |
| Latin America | 320 | 12.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 778 | 29.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 101,260 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 84,414 | 100.0 | English only | 97,526 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 17,253 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 3,734 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 51,456 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 868 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 1,004 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,726 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 4,639 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 499 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 3,751 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,482 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 10,062 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 244 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 5,673 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 359 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 108,685 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,525 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 118,659 | 109.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 723 | 47.4 | Arab | 120 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 770 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,363 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 79,129 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,647 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 13,376 | 16.9 | English | 15,207 | 14.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,880 | 4.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,342 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 26,712 | 24.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 26,089 | 100.0 | Greek | 225 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,573 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 383 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 61,152 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 15,102 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 11,178 | 18.3 | Italian | 4,275 | 3.9 | |
| Percent employed | 55.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 167 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 49,974 | 81.7 | Norwegian | 6,511 | 6.0 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,893 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,992 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 498 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,379 | 41.4 | Russian | 726 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,330 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,018 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 100 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 101,260 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 113 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 47,377 | 46.8 | Swedish | 4,385 | 4.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 53,187 | 52.5 | Swiss | 565 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 25,980 | 25.7 | Ukrainian | 300 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 27,207 | 26.9 | United States or American | 7,765 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 5,829 | 5.8 | Welsh | 1,245 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 21,378 | 21.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 696 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 16,000 | 14.7 | |
| 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)

