DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clackamas 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 | 338,391 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 87,642 | 100.0 | Native | 314,291 | 92.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,713 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 311,395 | 92.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,633 | 5.3 | State of residence | 173,592 | 51.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 41,604 | 47.5 | Different state | 137,803 | 40.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 19,880 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 2,896 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 15,812 | 18.0 | Foreign born | 24,100 | 7.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10,442 | 3.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9,300 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 223,211 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 14,800 | 4.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,875 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 17,799 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 53,824 | 24.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 24,100 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 65,811 | 29.5 | Europe | 6,451 | 26.8 | |
| Associate degree | 15,571 | 7.0 | Asia | 6,813 | 28.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 42,207 | 18.9 | Africa | 465 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 21,124 | 9.5 | Oceania | 304 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 8,180 | 33.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.9 | (X) | Northern America | 1,887 | 7.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 28.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 316,516 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 265,456 | 100.0 | English only | 286,210 | 90.4 | |
| Never married | 58,495 | 22.0 | Language other than English | 30,306 | 9.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 159,810 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,010 | 4.1 | |
| Separated | 3,660 | 1.4 | Spanish | 13,853 | 4.4 | |
| Widowed | 14,721 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,677 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 12,011 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 9,720 | 3.1 | |
| Divorced | 28,770 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,434 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 16,504 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,635 | 1.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,531 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 338,391 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,509 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 386,920 | 114.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,207 | 40.1 | Arab | 1,545 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,512 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,468 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 250,041 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,775 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 37,645 | 15.1 | English | 49,414 | 14.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,427 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,128 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 81,529 | 24.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 78,599 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,240 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,898 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 1,277 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 199,404 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 42,253 | 12.5 | |
| With a disability | 30,196 | 15.1 | Italian | 13,834 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 62.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 408 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 169,208 | 84.9 | Norwegian | 17,520 | 5.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 5,861 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 36,458 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,154 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 14,159 | 38.8 | Russian | 4,800 | 1.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,988 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,938 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 402 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 316,516 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 540 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 163,895 | 51.8 | Swedish | 13,581 | 4.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 146,295 | 46.2 | Swiss | 3,380 | 1.0 | |
| Same county | 65,830 | 20.8 | Ukrainian | 2,030 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 80,465 | 25.4 | United States or American | 20,297 | 6.0 | |
| Same state | 49,042 | 15.5 | Welsh | 3,999 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 31,423 | 9.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 160 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,326 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 69,460 | 20.5 | |
| 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)
