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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Klamath 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 63,775 100.0
      enrolled in school 16,355 100.0   Native 60,690 95.2
Nursery school, preschool 901 5.5       Born in United States 60,084 94.2
Kindergarten 949 5.8           State of residence 27,615 43.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 7,689 47.0           Different state 32,469 50.9
High school (grades 9-12) 3,846 23.5       Born outside United States 606 1.0
College or graduate school 2,970 18.2   Foreign born 3,085 4.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,176 1.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,260 2.0
  Population 25 years and over 41,833 100.0       Not a citizen 1,825 2.9
Less than 9th grade 2,224 5.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 5,521 13.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 14,275 34.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 3,085 100.0
Some college, no degree 10,569 25.3   Europe 556 18.0
Associate degree 2,591 6.2   Asia 357 11.6
Bachelor's degree 4,414 10.6   Africa 30 1.0
Graduate or professional degree 2,239 5.4   Oceania 32 1.0
        Latin America 1,852 60.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.5 (X)   Northern America 258 8.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 59,705 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 50,071 100.0   English only 54,841 91.9
Never married 10,344 20.7   Language other than English 4,864 8.1
Now married, except separated 28,732 57.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,037 3.4
Separated 903 1.8   Spanish 3,614 6.1
Widowed 3,467 6.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,809 3.0
 Female 2,698 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 724 1.2
Divorced 6,625 13.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 108 0.2
 Female 3,389 6.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 278 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 93 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 63,775 100.0
           under 18 years 1,086 100.0     Total ancestries reported 65,953 103.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 566 52.1   Arab 82 0.1
        Czech¹ 623 1.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 645 1.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 47,053 100.0   Dutch 1,601 2.5
Civilian veterans 8,870 18.9   English 7,843 12.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,292 3.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 752 1.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 11,723 18.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 14,842 100.0   Greek 48 0.1
With a disability 1,291 8.7   Hungarian 175 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 34,948 100.0   Irish¹ 8,128 12.7
With a disability 7,930 22.7   Italian 2,239 3.5
 Percent employed 50.1 (X)   Lithuanian 49 0.1
No disability 27,018 77.3   Norwegian 2,237 3.5
 Percent employed 71.8 (X)   Polish 706 1.1
     Population 65 years and over 9,294 100.0   Portuguese 433 0.7
With a disability 4,028 43.3   Russian 217 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 1,592 2.5
        Scottish 1,734 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 68 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 59,705 100.0   Subsaharan African 23 0.0
Same house in 1995 28,956 48.5   Swedish 1,650 2.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 30,228 50.6   Swiss 280 0.4
 Same county 15,918 26.7   Ukrainian 98 0.2
 Different county 14,310 24.0   United States or American 4,658 7.3
  Same state 5,427 9.1   Welsh 818 1.3
  Different state 8,883 14.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 20 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 521 0.9   Other ancestries 15,219 23.9
 
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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