DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Multnomah 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 | 660,486 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 162,670 | 100.0 | Native | 576,521 | 87.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 9,774 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 569,708 | 86.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,710 | 4.7 | State of residence | 297,107 | 45.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 65,371 | 40.2 | Different state | 272,601 | 41.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 31,891 | 19.6 | Born outside United States | 6,813 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 47,924 | 29.5 | Foreign born | 83,965 | 12.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 46,268 | 7.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 28,946 | 4.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 446,322 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 55,019 | 8.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 23,102 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 40,985 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 102,814 | 23.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 83,965 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 115,207 | 25.8 | Europe | 20,247 | 24.1 | |
| Associate degree | 27,386 | 6.1 | Asia | 29,337 | 34.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 89,711 | 20.1 | Africa | 2,633 | 3.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 47,117 | 10.6 | Oceania | 2,034 | 2.4 | |
| Latin America | 25,685 | 30.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.6 | (X) | Northern America | 4,029 | 4.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 618,617 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 536,912 | 100.0 | English only | 515,735 | 83.4 | |
| Never married | 176,052 | 32.8 | Language other than English | 102,882 | 16.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 249,302 | 46.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55,005 | 8.9 | |
| Separated | 10,791 | 2.0 | Spanish | 38,767 | 6.3 | |
| Widowed | 31,088 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21,686 | 3.5 | |
| Female | 25,219 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 29,348 | 4.7 | |
| Divorced | 69,679 | 13.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,345 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 39,324 | 7.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 30,310 | 4.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18,275 | 3.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 660,486 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 9,705 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 748,043 | 113.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,843 | 39.6 | Arab | 2,824 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 4,821 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7,449 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 513,245 | 100.0 | Dutch | 13,716 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 63,362 | 12.3 | English | 77,562 | 11.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 23,549 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5,974 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 127,488 | 19.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 132,000 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,812 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 11,857 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 2,712 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 409,184 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 79,751 | 12.1 | |
| With a disability | 73,044 | 17.9 | Italian | 25,011 | 3.8 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,208 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 336,140 | 82.1 | Norwegian | 30,691 | 4.6 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 11,951 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 70,794 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,942 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 29,773 | 42.1 | Russian | 12,068 | 1.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 13,523 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 20,306 | 3.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 566 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 618,617 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,665 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 277,950 | 44.9 | Swedish | 22,330 | 3.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 314,783 | 50.9 | Swiss | 5,146 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 184,746 | 29.9 | Ukrainian | 6,740 | 1.0 | |
| Different county | 130,037 | 21.0 | United States or American | 27,546 | 4.2 | |
| Same state | 50,504 | 8.2 | Welsh | 8,113 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 79,533 | 12.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 852 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 25,884 | 4.2 | Other ancestries | 206,727 | 31.3 | |
| 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
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