
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Juan 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 | 113,801 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 36,608 | 100.0 | Native | 111,055 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,922 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 110,735 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,822 | 5.0 | State of residence | 64,203 | 56.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 17,415 | 47.6 | Different state | 46,532 | 40.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 9,445 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 320 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,004 | 16.4 | Foreign born | 2,746 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,166 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 908 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 65,262 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,838 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,063 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,083 | 13.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,874 | 30.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,746 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 17,053 | 26.1 | Europe | 201 | 7.3 | |
| Associate degree | 4,362 | 6.7 | Asia | 232 | 8.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,711 | 8.8 | Africa | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,116 | 4.8 | Oceania | 96 | 3.5 | |
| Latin America | 2,061 | 75.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.8 | (X) | Northern America | 150 | 5.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 104,783 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 83,718 | 100.0 | English only | 70,548 | 67.3 | |
| Never married | 23,299 | 27.8 | Language other than English | 34,235 | 32.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 45,948 | 54.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,260 | 10.7 | |
| Separated | 1,594 | 1.9 | Spanish | 8,797 | 8.4 | |
| Widowed | 4,329 | 5.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,775 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 3,396 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 439 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 8,548 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 4,761 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 122 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 113,801 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,342 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 110,275 | 96.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,877 | 56.2 | Arab | 196 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 349 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 534 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 76,702 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,409 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,825 | 12.8 | English | 8,990 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,915 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 291 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,266 | 9.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 33,457 | 100.0 | Greek | 57 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,832 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 144 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 60,470 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,348 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 13,308 | 22.0 | Italian | 1,473 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 55.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 39 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 47,162 | 78.0 | Norwegian | 913 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 68.6 | (X) | Polish | 799 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,859 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 78 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,940 | 50.1 | Russian | 146 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,430 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,788 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 23 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 104,783 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 59,910 | 57.2 | Swedish | 787 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 43,911 | 41.9 | Swiss | 256 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 27,133 | 25.9 | Ukrainian | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 16,778 | 16.0 | United States or American | 6,354 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 4,701 | 4.5 | Welsh | 308 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 12,077 | 11.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 63 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 962 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 63,190 | 55.5 | |
| 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)

