
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Piute 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 | 1,435 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 392 | 100.0 | Native | 1,406 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 44 | 11.2 | Born in United States | 1,401 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 20 | 5.1 | State of residence | 1,084 | 75.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 181 | 46.2 | Different state | 317 | 22.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 112 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 5 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 35 | 8.9 | Foreign born | 29 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 893 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 23 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 18 | 2.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 110 | 12.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 328 | 36.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 29 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 247 | 27.7 | Europe | 2 | 6.9 | |
| Associate degree | 61 | 6.8 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 99 | 11.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 30 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 27 | 93.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,316 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,093 | 100.0 | English only | 1,252 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 186 | 17.0 | Language other than English | 64 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 715 | 65.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 17 | 1.6 | Spanish | 50 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 91 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 71 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 11 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 84 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 35 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,435 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 36 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,400 | 97.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 28 | 77.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 122 | 8.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 989 | 100.0 | Dutch | 32 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 152 | 15.4 | English | 448 | 31.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 17 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 106 | 7.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 364 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 15 | 4.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 708 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 67 | 4.7 | |
| With a disability | 139 | 19.6 | Italian | 53 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 569 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 31 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 19 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 244 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 115 | 47.1 | Russian | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 14 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 33 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,316 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 880 | 66.9 | Swedish | 60 | 4.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 416 | 31.6 | Swiss | 18 | 1.3 | |
| Same county | 162 | 12.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 254 | 19.3 | United States or American | 162 | 11.3 | |
| Same state | 156 | 11.9 | Welsh | 14 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 98 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 20 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 180 | 12.5 | |
| 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)

