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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McKinley 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 74,798 100.0
      enrolled in school 28,043 100.0   Native 73,459 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 1,944 6.9       Born in United States 73,187 97.8
Kindergarten 1,573 5.6           State of residence 55,533 74.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 13,881 49.5           Different state 17,654 23.6
High school (grades 9-12) 7,143 25.5       Born outside United States 272 0.4
College or graduate school 3,502 12.5   Foreign born 1,339 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 475 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 598 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 38,988 100.0       Not a citizen 741 1.0
Less than 9th grade 6,182 15.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 7,396 19.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 10,858 27.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,339 100.0
Some college, no degree 7,616 19.5   Europe 87 6.5
Associate degree 2,274 5.8   Asia 207 15.5
Bachelor's degree 2,585 6.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 2,077 5.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 1,001 74.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.2 (X)   Northern America 44 3.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 67,873 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 51,284 100.0   English only 26,253 38.7
Never married 20,300 39.6   Language other than English 41,620 61.3
Now married, except separated 22,920 44.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14,599 21.5
Separated 1,234 2.4   Spanish 3,865 5.7
Widowed 3,197 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,164 1.7
 Female 2,461 4.8   Other Indo-European languages 239 0.4
Divorced 3,633 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 66 0.1
 Female 2,139 4.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 233 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 79 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 74,798 100.0
           under 18 years 3,602 100.0     Total ancestries reported 72,623 97.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,179 60.5   Arab 102 0.1
        Czech¹ 35 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 81 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 46,419 100.0   Dutch 340 0.5
Civilian veterans 4,374 9.4   English 1,374 1.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 260 0.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 78 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,156 2.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 24,801 100.0   Greek 45 0.1
With a disability 1,566 6.3   Hungarian 51 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 37,494 100.0   Irish¹ 1,693 2.3
With a disability 9,153 24.4   Italian 681 0.9
 Percent employed 46.1 (X)   Lithuanian 15 0.0
No disability 28,341 75.6   Norwegian 209 0.3
 Percent employed 56.1 (X)   Polish 274 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 4,904 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 3,151 64.3   Russian 46 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 218 0.3
        Scottish 286 0.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 17 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 67,873 100.0   Subsaharan African 10 0.0
Same house in 1995 47,405 69.8   Swedish 67 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 19,985 29.4   Swiss 46 0.1
 Same county 12,751 18.8   Ukrainian 38 0.1
 Different county 7,234 10.7   United States or American 922 1.2
  Same state 2,097 3.1   Welsh 120 0.2
  Different state 5,137 7.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 15 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 483 0.7   Other ancestries 63,444 84.8
 
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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