
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ravalli 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 | 36,070 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,361 | 100.0 | Native | 35,467 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 395 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 35,186 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 458 | 5.5 | State of residence | 13,505 | 37.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,494 | 53.7 | Different state | 21,681 | 60.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,216 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 281 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 798 | 9.5 | Foreign born | 603 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 102 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 342 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,565 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 261 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 664 | 2.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,435 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,738 | 31.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 603 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,916 | 28.2 | Europe | 281 | 46.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,284 | 5.2 | Asia | 74 | 12.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,897 | 15.9 | Africa | 14 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,631 | 6.6 | Oceania | 16 | 2.7 | |
| Latin America | 59 | 9.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.4 | (X) | Northern America | 159 | 26.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 34,000 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 28,590 | 100.0 | English only | 32,819 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 5,190 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 1,181 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,153 | 63.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 253 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 380 | 1.3 | Spanish | 519 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,889 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 85 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,554 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 555 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,978 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 131 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,499 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 36,070 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 438 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,789 | 113.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 221 | 50.5 | Arab | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 332 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 550 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,774 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,158 | 3.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,254 | 19.6 | English | 5,783 | 16.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,488 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 351 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,173 | 25.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,354 | 100.0 | Greek | 145 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 580 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 168 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,013 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,161 | 14.3 | |
| With a disability | 3,731 | 18.6 | Italian | 1,443 | 4.0 | |
| Percent employed | 49.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 60 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 16,282 | 81.4 | Norwegian | 2,417 | 6.7 | |
| Percent employed | 74.8 | (X) | Polish | 743 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,292 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 131 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,910 | 36.1 | Russian | 267 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,098 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,241 | 3.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 75 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 34,000 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,348 | 48.1 | Swedish | 1,214 | 3.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,441 | 51.3 | Swiss | 202 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 7,152 | 21.0 | Ukrainian | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 10,289 | 30.3 | United States or American | 2,210 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 3,340 | 9.8 | Welsh | 448 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 6,949 | 20.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 211 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 4,793 | 13.3 | |
| 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)

