
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lane 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 | 2,155 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 514 | 100.0 | Native | 2,144 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 46 | 8.9 | Born in United States | 2,135 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 7.0 | State of residence | 1,789 | 83.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 241 | 46.9 | Different state | 346 | 16.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 163 | 31.7 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 28 | 5.4 | Foreign born | 11 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,491 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 80 | 5.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 92 | 6.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 508 | 34.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 11 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 429 | 28.8 | Europe | 2 | 18.2 | |
| Associate degree | 106 | 7.1 | Asia | 4 | 36.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 212 | 14.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 64 | 4.3 | Oceania | 5 | 45.5 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,036 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,739 | 100.0 | English only | 1,994 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 284 | 16.3 | Language other than English | 42 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,122 | 64.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 7 | 0.4 | Spanish | 19 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 168 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 140 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 18 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 158 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 82 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,155 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 24 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,088 | 96.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 14 | 58.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,610 | 100.0 | Dutch | 43 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 259 | 16.1 | English | 320 | 14.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 44 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 737 | 34.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 471 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 24 | 5.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,122 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 232 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 132 | 11.8 | Italian | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 62.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 990 | 88.2 | Norwegian | 28 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 85.6 | (X) | Polish | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 420 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 174 | 41.4 | Russian | 41 | 1.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 47 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 42 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,036 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,351 | 66.4 | Swedish | 64 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 675 | 33.2 | Swiss | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 402 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 273 | 13.4 | United States or American | 210 | 9.7 | |
| Same state | 171 | 8.4 | Welsh | 35 | 1.6 | |
| Different state | 102 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 197 | 9.1 | |
| 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
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