
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Park 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 | 15,694 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,349 | 100.0 | Native | 15,276 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 295 | 8.8 | Born in United States | 15,156 | 96.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 165 | 4.9 | State of residence | 7,596 | 48.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,735 | 51.8 | Different state | 7,560 | 48.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 778 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 120 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 376 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 418 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 105 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 157 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,013 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 261 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 449 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 919 | 8.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,555 | 32.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 418 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,041 | 27.6 | Europe | 223 | 53.3 | |
| Associate degree | 507 | 4.6 | Asia | 31 | 7.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,755 | 15.9 | Africa | 10 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 787 | 7.1 | Oceania | 12 | 2.9 | |
| Latin America | 39 | 9.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.6 | (X) | Northern America | 103 | 24.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,788 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,681 | 100.0 | English only | 14,299 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 2,551 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 489 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,537 | 59.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 210 | 1.7 | Spanish | 201 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 870 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 734 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 249 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,513 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 848 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,694 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 156 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,447 | 117.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 105 | 67.3 | Arab | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 118 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 210 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,018 | 100.0 | Dutch | 483 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,826 | 15.2 | English | 2,507 | 16.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 729 | 4.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 182 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,190 | 26.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,221 | 100.0 | Greek | 39 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 177 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,196 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,990 | 12.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,669 | 18.1 | Italian | 573 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 7,527 | 81.9 | Norwegian | 1,562 | 10.0 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 346 | 2.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,261 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 49 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 911 | 40.3 | Russian | 98 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 497 | 3.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 669 | 4.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,788 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,676 | 51.9 | Swedish | 821 | 5.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,923 | 46.8 | Swiss | 101 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 3,273 | 22.1 | Ukrainian | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 3,650 | 24.7 | United States or American | 999 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 1,380 | 9.3 | Welsh | 205 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 2,270 | 15.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 189 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 1,904 | 12.1 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

