
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Duchesne 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 | 14,371 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,687 | 100.0 | Native | 14,187 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 240 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 14,144 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 284 | 6.1 | State of residence | 11,313 | 78.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,397 | 51.1 | Different state | 2,831 | 19.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,321 | 28.2 | Born outside United States | 43 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 445 | 9.5 | Foreign born | 184 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 82 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 88 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,752 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 96 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 254 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,220 | 15.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,922 | 37.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 184 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,944 | 25.1 | Europe | 32 | 17.4 | |
| Associate degree | 426 | 5.5 | Asia | 20 | 10.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 711 | 9.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 275 | 3.5 | Oceania | 12 | 6.5 | |
| Latin America | 105 | 57.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.0 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 8.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,081 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,103 | 100.0 | English only | 12,521 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 2,145 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 560 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,492 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 111 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 135 | 1.3 | Spanish | 285 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 483 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 392 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 848 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 412 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,371 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 227 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,840 | 110.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 131 | 57.7 | Arab | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 986 | 6.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,087 | 100.0 | Dutch | 264 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,069 | 11.8 | English | 4,390 | 30.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 375 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,628 | 11.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,595 | 100.0 | Greek | 43 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 303 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,933 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,126 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,550 | 22.4 | Italian | 248 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,383 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 178 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 72.5 | (X) | Polish | 110 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,343 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 586 | 43.6 | Russian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 195 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 786 | 5.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,081 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,242 | 63.0 | Swedish | 679 | 4.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,802 | 36.7 | Swiss | 134 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 2,312 | 17.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,490 | 19.0 | United States or American | 1,144 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 1,858 | 14.2 | Welsh | 256 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 632 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,196 | 22.2 | |
| 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
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