
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Juan 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 | 14,413 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,470 | 100.0 | Native | 14,283 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 335 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 14,230 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 292 | 5.3 | State of residence | 7,897 | 54.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,779 | 50.8 | Different state | 6,333 | 43.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,339 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 53 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 725 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 130 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 51 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 53 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,290 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 77 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,097 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,117 | 15.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,722 | 23.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 130 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,629 | 22.3 | Europe | 2 | 1.5 | |
| Associate degree | 709 | 9.7 | Asia | 13 | 10.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 733 | 10.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 283 | 3.9 | Oceania | 12 | 9.2 | |
| Latin America | 83 | 63.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.6 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 15.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,010 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,684 | 100.0 | English only | 6,871 | 52.8 | |
| Never married | 3,099 | 32.0 | Language other than English | 6,139 | 47.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,274 | 54.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,401 | 18.5 | |
| Separated | 205 | 2.1 | Spanish | 319 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 468 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 368 | 3.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 54 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 638 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 395 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 14,413 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 467 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,445 | 100.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 335 | 71.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 24 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 329 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,748 | 100.0 | Dutch | 128 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 739 | 8.4 | English | 1,848 | 12.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 202 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 26 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 767 | 5.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,999 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 383 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,713 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 462 | 3.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,742 | 25.9 | Italian | 112 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 42.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,971 | 74.1 | Norwegian | 98 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 61.6 | (X) | Polish | 63 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,125 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 613 | 54.5 | Russian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 97 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 294 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,010 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,906 | 68.5 | Swedish | 182 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,058 | 31.2 | Swiss | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,063 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,995 | 15.3 | United States or American | 515 | 3.6 | |
| Same state | 932 | 7.2 | Welsh | 175 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 1,063 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 46 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 9,043 | 62.7 | |
| 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)

