
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Emery 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 | 10,860 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,518 | 100.0 | Native | 10,588 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 193 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 10,547 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 163 | 4.6 | State of residence | 8,537 | 78.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,794 | 51.0 | Different state | 2,010 | 18.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,085 | 30.8 | Born outside United States | 41 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 283 | 8.0 | Foreign born | 272 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 178 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 98 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,980 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 174 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 197 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 746 | 12.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,113 | 35.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 272 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,754 | 29.3 | Europe | 41 | 15.1 | |
| Associate degree | 474 | 7.9 | Asia | 24 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 512 | 8.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 184 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 194 | 71.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 4.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,978 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,823 | 100.0 | English only | 9,434 | 94.5 | |
| Never married | 1,702 | 21.8 | Language other than English | 544 | 5.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,084 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 254 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 79 | 1.0 | Spanish | 381 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 443 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 210 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 374 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 120 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 515 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 275 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,860 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 167 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,684 | 107.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 99 | 59.3 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,502 | 13.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,012 | 100.0 | Dutch | 320 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 844 | 12.0 | English | 3,152 | 29.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 252 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 39 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,051 | 9.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,448 | 100.0 | Greek | 44 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 197 | 5.7 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,408 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 651 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,004 | 18.6 | Italian | 325 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 46.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,404 | 81.4 | Norwegian | 422 | 3.9 | |
| Percent employed | 75.2 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,029 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 447 | 43.4 | Russian | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 119 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 384 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,978 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,578 | 65.9 | Swedish | 375 | 3.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,334 | 33.4 | Swiss | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,692 | 17.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,642 | 16.5 | United States or American | 837 | 7.7 | |
| Same state | 1,151 | 11.5 | Welsh | 133 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 491 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 66 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,933 | 17.8 | |
| 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)

