
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Latah 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 | 34,935 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,797 | 100.0 | Native | 33,450 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 473 | 3.2 | Born in United States | 33,070 | 94.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 417 | 2.8 | State of residence | 14,133 | 40.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,144 | 21.2 | Different state | 18,937 | 54.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,592 | 10.8 | Born outside United States | 380 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 9,171 | 62.0 | Foreign born | 1,485 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 863 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 358 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 19,493 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,127 | 3.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 609 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,149 | 5.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,400 | 22.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,485 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,071 | 20.9 | Europe | 349 | 23.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,278 | 6.6 | Asia | 631 | 42.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,432 | 22.7 | Africa | 37 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,554 | 18.2 | Oceania | 45 | 3.0 | |
| Latin America | 181 | 12.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.0 | (X) | Northern America | 242 | 16.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 41.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,038 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,121 | 100.0 | English only | 30,801 | 93.2 | |
| Never married | 10,364 | 35.6 | Language other than English | 2,237 | 6.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,208 | 52.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 686 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 186 | 0.6 | Spanish | 884 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,106 | 3.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 236 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 889 | 3.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 697 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 2,257 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 126 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,121 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 537 | 1.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 268 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,935 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 150 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,676 | 113.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 54 | 36.0 | Arab | 142 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 282 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 672 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,782 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,050 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,121 | 11.2 | English | 5,463 | 15.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,042 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 321 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,417 | 24.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,896 | 100.0 | Greek | 130 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 517 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 100 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,727 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,266 | 12.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,270 | 11.0 | Italian | 1,304 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 57.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 18,457 | 89.0 | Norwegian | 2,210 | 6.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.3 | (X) | Polish | 651 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,985 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 76 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,189 | 39.8 | Russian | 180 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 846 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,355 | 3.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 22 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,038 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,539 | 41.0 | Swedish | 1,916 | 5.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,525 | 56.1 | Swiss | 432 | 1.2 | |
| Same county | 6,410 | 19.4 | Ukrainian | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 12,115 | 36.7 | United States or American | 2,155 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 5,545 | 16.8 | Welsh | 514 | 1.5 | |
| Different state | 6,570 | 19.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 974 | 2.9 | Other ancestries | 5,939 | 17.0 | |
| 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)

