
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Umatilla 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 | 70,548 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,290 | 100.0 | Native | 64,618 | 91.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,063 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 64,004 | 90.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,016 | 5.6 | State of residence | 30,004 | 42.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,975 | 49.1 | Different state | 34,000 | 48.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,493 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 614 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,743 | 15.0 | Foreign born | 5,930 | 8.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,586 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,594 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 44,515 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,336 | 6.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,892 | 8.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,005 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,187 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,930 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,954 | 24.6 | Europe | 247 | 4.2 | |
| Associate degree | 3,367 | 7.6 | Asia | 404 | 6.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,173 | 9.4 | Africa | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,937 | 6.6 | Oceania | 23 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 5,031 | 84.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.8 | (X) | Northern America | 212 | 3.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 65,317 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 54,340 | 100.0 | English only | 54,715 | 83.8 | |
| Never married | 12,041 | 22.2 | Language other than English | 10,602 | 16.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 31,965 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,126 | 7.8 | |
| Separated | 931 | 1.7 | Spanish | 9,245 | 14.2 | |
| Widowed | 3,088 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,726 | 7.2 | |
| Female | 2,414 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 553 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 6,315 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 95 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 3,162 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 526 | 0.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 258 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,548 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,264 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 67,590 | 95.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 667 | 52.8 | Arab | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 337 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,081 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,945 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,704 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,671 | 15.1 | English | 7,795 | 11.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,224 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 426 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,030 | 17.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 16,961 | 100.0 | Greek | 66 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,341 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 37,126 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,286 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 7,189 | 19.4 | Italian | 1,198 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 29,937 | 80.6 | Norwegian | 1,809 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 79.0 | (X) | Polish | 564 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,388 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 165 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,695 | 44.1 | Russian | 376 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,381 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,766 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 56 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 65,317 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 35 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 33,264 | 50.9 | Swedish | 1,433 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 30,691 | 47.0 | Swiss | 307 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 16,996 | 26.0 | Ukrainian | 67 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 13,695 | 21.0 | United States or American | 6,682 | 9.5 | |
| Same state | 5,164 | 7.9 | Welsh | 509 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 8,531 | 13.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,362 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 19,138 | 27.1 | |
| 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)

