DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lane 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 | 322,959 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 90,503 | 100.0 | Native | 306,998 | 95.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,914 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 304,155 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,054 | 4.5 | State of residence | 145,657 | 45.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 33,828 | 37.4 | Different state | 158,498 | 49.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 17,060 | 18.9 | Born outside United States | 2,843 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 30,647 | 33.9 | Foreign born | 15,961 | 4.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7,545 | 2.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6,074 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 210,601 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,887 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,852 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,413 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 54,475 | 25.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 15,961 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 60,755 | 28.8 | Europe | 3,398 | 21.3 | |
| Associate degree | 15,383 | 7.3 | Asia | 5,015 | 31.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 32,829 | 15.6 | Africa | 262 | 1.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 20,894 | 9.9 | Oceania | 351 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 5,191 | 32.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.5 | (X) | Northern America | 1,744 | 10.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 304,463 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 262,681 | 100.0 | English only | 280,562 | 92.1 | |
| Never married | 73,838 | 28.1 | Language other than English | 23,901 | 7.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 137,223 | 52.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,853 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 4,310 | 1.6 | Spanish | 12,407 | 4.1 | |
| Widowed | 15,460 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,098 | 1.7 | |
| Female | 12,445 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 5,852 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 31,850 | 12.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,259 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 17,826 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4,835 | 1.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,303 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 322,959 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,183 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 353,843 | 109.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,740 | 41.6 | Arab | 893 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,203 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5,436 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 249,292 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,134 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 37,769 | 15.2 | English | 46,286 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,164 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,012 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 67,121 | 20.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 71,921 | 100.0 | Greek | 771 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 5,973 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 1,081 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 188,338 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 41,261 | 12.8 | |
| With a disability | 33,657 | 17.9 | Italian | 10,912 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 57.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 454 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 154,681 | 82.1 | Norwegian | 14,430 | 4.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 5,774 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 42,037 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,230 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 17,952 | 42.7 | Russian | 3,505 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,185 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,381 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 209 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 304,463 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 634 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 142,447 | 46.8 | Swedish | 9,580 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 156,427 | 51.4 | Swiss | 2,276 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 94,788 | 31.1 | Ukrainian | 1,041 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 61,639 | 20.2 | United States or American | 20,121 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 23,526 | 7.7 | Welsh | 4,093 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 38,113 | 12.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 254 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,589 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 68,402 | 21.2 | |
| 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)
