
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Miguel 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 | 30,126 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,583 | 100.0 | Native | 29,381 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 422 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 29,219 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 469 | 4.9 | State of residence | 23,207 | 77.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,932 | 41.0 | Different state | 6,012 | 20.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,037 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 162 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,723 | 28.4 | Foreign born | 745 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 366 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 174 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,531 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 571 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,218 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,508 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,740 | 25.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 745 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,964 | 21.4 | Europe | 215 | 28.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,178 | 6.4 | Asia | 91 | 12.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,257 | 12.2 | Africa | 53 | 7.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,666 | 9.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 369 | 49.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.5 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 28,186 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 23,350 | 100.0 | English only | 11,049 | 39.2 | |
| Never married | 8,051 | 34.5 | Language other than English | 17,137 | 60.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,311 | 44.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,096 | 14.5 | |
| Separated | 275 | 1.2 | Spanish | 16,533 | 58.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,724 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,966 | 14.1 | |
| Female | 1,325 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 303 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 2,989 | 12.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,571 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 78 | 0.3 | |
| 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 | 30,126 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 826 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,282 | 90.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 502 | 60.8 | Arab | 46 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 74 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 78 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 21,815 | 100.0 | Dutch | 96 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,824 | 12.9 | English | 888 | 2.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 311 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 82 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,301 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,136 | 100.0 | Greek | 26 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 779 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,480 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 926 | 3.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,125 | 25.0 | Italian | 291 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 38.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 12,355 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 187 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 184 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,446 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,795 | 52.1 | Russian | 69 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 316 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 253 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 28,186 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,812 | 63.2 | Swedish | 129 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,961 | 35.3 | Swiss | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,379 | 19.1 | Ukrainian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 4,582 | 16.3 | United States or American | 957 | 3.2 | |
| Same state | 2,636 | 9.4 | Welsh | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,946 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 413 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 20,850 | 69.2 | |
| 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)

