
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Yamhill 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 | 84,992 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,412 | 100.0 | Native | 78,557 | 92.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,234 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 77,999 | 91.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,278 | 5.5 | State of residence | 42,053 | 49.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,414 | 44.5 | Different state | 35,946 | 42.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,209 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 558 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,277 | 22.5 | Foreign born | 6,435 | 7.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,517 | 4.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,685 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 52,645 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,750 | 5.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,348 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,716 | 10.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,235 | 30.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6,435 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,752 | 26.1 | Europe | 627 | 9.7 | |
| Associate degree | 2,737 | 5.2 | Asia | 511 | 7.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 7,042 | 13.4 | Africa | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,815 | 7.2 | Oceania | 26 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 4,904 | 76.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.8 | (X) | Northern America | 360 | 5.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 79,213 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 66,334 | 100.0 | English only | 70,367 | 88.8 | |
| Never married | 16,295 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 8,846 | 11.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 39,186 | 59.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,461 | 5.6 | |
| Separated | 947 | 1.4 | Spanish | 7,207 | 9.1 | |
| Widowed | 3,595 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,946 | 5.0 | |
| Female | 2,923 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 980 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 6,311 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 207 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,313 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 530 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 268 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 84,992 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,464 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 87,845 | 103.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 566 | 38.7 | Arab | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 656 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,004 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 62,324 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,848 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,544 | 15.3 | English | 10,951 | 12.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,964 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 698 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,547 | 20.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,531 | 100.0 | Greek | 137 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,764 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 182 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 45,581 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,107 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 8,912 | 19.6 | Italian | 2,059 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 64.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 100 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 36,669 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 3,363 | 4.0 | |
| Percent employed | 79.0 | (X) | Polish | 1,337 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,175 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 310 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,617 | 39.4 | Russian | 251 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,741 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,823 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 35 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 79,213 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 37,737 | 47.6 | Swedish | 2,368 | 2.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 39,687 | 50.1 | Swiss | 696 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 19,198 | 24.2 | Ukrainian | 149 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 20,489 | 25.9 | United States or American | 6,041 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 12,518 | 15.8 | Welsh | 1,005 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 7,971 | 10.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,789 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 19,379 | 22.8 | |
| 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)

