DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lewis 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 | 14,092 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,393 | 100.0 | Native | 14,071 | 99.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 282 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 14,051 | 99.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 211 | 6.2 | State of residence | 8,598 | 61.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,687 | 49.7 | Different state | 5,453 | 38.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 839 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 20 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 374 | 11.0 | Foreign born | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,256 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,165 | 23.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,775 | 19.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,218 | 34.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,218 | 13.2 | Europe | 9 | 42.9 | |
| Associate degree | 284 | 3.1 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 313 | 3.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 283 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 57.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 57.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,218 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,174 | 100.0 | English only | 13,032 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 2,101 | 18.8 | Language other than English | 186 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,901 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 162 | 1.4 | Spanish | 130 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 907 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 756 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 47 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,103 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 545 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,092 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 187 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,181 | 79.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 126 | 67.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,540 | 100.0 | Dutch | 150 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 990 | 9.4 | English | 2,117 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 113 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 43 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,139 | 8.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,302 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 327 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,061 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,084 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,697 | 33.5 | Italian | 63 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 37.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,364 | 66.5 | Norwegian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Polish | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,678 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 938 | 55.9 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 67 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 89 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,218 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,070 | 68.6 | Swedish | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,126 | 31.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,621 | 19.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,505 | 11.4 | United States or American | 4,492 | 31.9 | |
| Same state | 738 | 5.6 | Welsh | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 767 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,691 | 12.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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