
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cibola 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 | 25,595 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,644 | 100.0 | Native | 25,012 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 552 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 24,920 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 441 | 5.8 | State of residence | 18,817 | 73.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,764 | 49.2 | Different state | 6,103 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,628 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 92 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,259 | 16.5 | Foreign born | 583 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 157 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 331 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,273 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 252 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,420 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,392 | 15.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,585 | 36.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 583 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,173 | 20.8 | Europe | 80 | 13.7 | |
| Associate degree | 868 | 5.7 | Asia | 63 | 10.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,124 | 7.4 | Africa | 9 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 711 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 391 | 67.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.0 | (X) | Northern America | 40 | 6.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,585 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,033 | 100.0 | English only | 13,222 | 56.1 | |
| Never married | 5,785 | 30.4 | Language other than English | 10,363 | 43.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,589 | 50.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,893 | 12.3 | |
| Separated | 446 | 2.3 | Spanish | 4,802 | 20.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,318 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,087 | 4.6 | |
| Female | 999 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 190 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,895 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 999 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 86 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,595 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,179 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 23,697 | 92.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 530 | 45.0 | Arab | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 20 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,729 | 100.0 | Dutch | 130 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,633 | 14.9 | English | 1,067 | 4.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 238 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 94 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,081 | 4.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,965 | 100.0 | Greek | 55 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 402 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,876 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 968 | 3.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,070 | 23.8 | Italian | 194 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 47.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,806 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 102 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 64.1 | (X) | Polish | 156 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,726 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,345 | 49.3 | Russian | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 168 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 182 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,585 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,894 | 67.4 | Swedish | 155 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,556 | 32.0 | Swiss | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 3,883 | 16.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,673 | 15.6 | United States or American | 700 | 2.7 | |
| Same state | 2,200 | 9.3 | Welsh | 123 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,473 | 6.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 135 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 18,030 | 70.4 | |
| 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)

