
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Missoula 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 | 95,802 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 30,019 | 100.0 | Native | 93,606 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,265 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 92,944 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,152 | 3.8 | State of residence | 47,698 | 49.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,345 | 34.5 | Different state | 45,246 | 47.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,272 | 17.6 | Born outside United States | 662 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,985 | 39.9 | Foreign born | 2,196 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 850 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,207 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 59,298 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 989 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,499 | 2.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,845 | 6.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,733 | 26.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,196 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 15,870 | 26.8 | Europe | 1,007 | 45.9 | |
| Associate degree | 2,901 | 4.9 | Asia | 585 | 26.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 13,084 | 22.1 | Africa | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,366 | 10.7 | Oceania | 62 | 2.8 | |
| Latin America | 139 | 6.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.0 | (X) | Northern America | 395 | 18.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 32.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 90,465 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 77,985 | 100.0 | English only | 86,082 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 25,332 | 32.5 | Language other than English | 4,383 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 39,460 | 50.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,304 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 920 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,518 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 3,777 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 382 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,017 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,926 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 8,496 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 453 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 4,741 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 626 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 406 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 95,802 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 974 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 113,044 | 118.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 423 | 43.4 | Arab | 183 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 674 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,428 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 73,861 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,042 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 10,263 | 13.9 | English | 12,969 | 13.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,657 | 4.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,365 | 1.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 25,328 | 26.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 22,661 | 100.0 | Greek | 265 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,786 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 529 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 57,640 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 16,226 | 16.9 | |
| With a disability | 8,505 | 14.8 | Italian | 3,906 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 58.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 141 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 49,135 | 85.2 | Norwegian | 8,770 | 9.2 | |
| Percent employed | 81.3 | (X) | Polish | 2,092 | 2.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,335 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 162 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,681 | 39.4 | Russian | 952 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,618 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,540 | 3.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 99 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 90,465 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 43 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 41,105 | 45.4 | Swedish | 4,066 | 4.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 48,495 | 53.6 | Swiss | 594 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 23,047 | 25.5 | Ukrainian | 160 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 25,448 | 28.1 | United States or American | 4,303 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 9,772 | 10.8 | Welsh | 1,260 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 15,676 | 17.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 865 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 14,649 | 15.3 | |
| 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)

