
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baker 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 | 16,741 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,629 | 100.0 | Native | 16,437 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 204 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 16,344 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 226 | 6.2 | State of residence | 8,651 | 51.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,840 | 50.7 | Different state | 7,693 | 46.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,075 | 29.6 | Born outside United States | 93 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 284 | 7.8 | Foreign born | 304 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 130 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 147 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,712 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 157 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 681 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,623 | 13.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,672 | 31.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 304 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,203 | 27.3 | Europe | 70 | 23.0 | |
| Associate degree | 614 | 5.2 | Asia | 69 | 22.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,359 | 11.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 560 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 134 | 44.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.3 | (X) | Northern America | 31 | 10.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,839 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,488 | 100.0 | English only | 15,210 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 2,192 | 16.3 | Language other than English | 629 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,336 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 267 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 162 | 1.2 | Spanish | 433 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,155 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 194 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 946 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 147 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,643 | 12.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 850 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,741 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 137 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,919 | 95.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 77 | 56.2 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 69 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 274 | 1.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,667 | 100.0 | Dutch | 519 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,325 | 18.4 | English | 2,869 | 17.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 607 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 195 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,844 | 17.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,656 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 282 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,779 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,934 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,924 | 21.9 | Italian | 260 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 47.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,855 | 78.1 | Norwegian | 483 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 125 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,123 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 87 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,542 | 49.4 | Russian | 77 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 485 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 491 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,839 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,532 | 53.9 | Swedish | 425 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,236 | 45.7 | Swiss | 147 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 3,554 | 22.4 | Ukrainian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,682 | 23.2 | United States or American | 1,287 | 7.7 | |
| Same state | 1,974 | 12.5 | Welsh | 210 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 1,708 | 10.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 71 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 2,423 | 14.5 | |
| 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)

