
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Davis 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 | 238,994 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 80,293 | 100.0 | Native | 230,300 | 96.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,347 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 227,269 | 95.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,461 | 5.6 | State of residence | 155,258 | 65.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 36,421 | 45.4 | Different state | 72,011 | 30.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 19,797 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 3,031 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 14,267 | 17.8 | Foreign born | 8,694 | 3.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,389 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,262 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 125,532 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,432 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,967 | 1.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,768 | 6.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 29,278 | 23.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8,694 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 39,276 | 31.3 | Europe | 2,379 | 27.4 | |
| Associate degree | 11,111 | 8.9 | Asia | 2,250 | 25.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 25,935 | 20.7 | Africa | 78 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 10,197 | 8.1 | Oceania | 300 | 3.5 | |
| Latin America | 3,113 | 35.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 92.2 | (X) | Northern America | 574 | 6.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 28.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 215,480 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 169,831 | 100.0 | English only | 199,147 | 92.4 | |
| Never married | 42,558 | 25.1 | Language other than English | 16,333 | 7.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 107,037 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,017 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 1,769 | 1.0 | Spanish | 8,685 | 4.0 | |
| Widowed | 5,799 | 3.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,923 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 4,642 | 2.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,169 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 12,668 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 943 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 7,138 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,969 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 993 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 238,994 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,944 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 269,416 | 112.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,660 | 42.1 | Arab | 511 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 468 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16,411 | 6.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 151,657 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,410 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 19,514 | 12.9 | English | 78,346 | 32.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 6,298 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 754 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 29,554 | 12.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 73,099 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,172 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 4,962 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 383 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 120,830 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 14,279 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 15,887 | 13.1 | Italian | 6,113 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 67.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 214 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 104,943 | 86.9 | Norwegian | 6,546 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 1,712 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 16,954 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 536 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,090 | 35.9 | Russian | 595 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,810 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,501 | 4.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 151 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 215,480 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 331 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 111,843 | 51.9 | Swedish | 9,732 | 4.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 99,313 | 46.1 | Swiss | 3,824 | 1.6 | |
| Same county | 47,827 | 22.2 | Ukrainian | 260 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 51,486 | 23.9 | United States or American | 17,493 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 25,805 | 12.0 | Welsh | 5,441 | 2.3 | |
| Different state | 25,681 | 11.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 99 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,324 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 47,472 | 19.9 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

