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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tooele 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 40,735 100.0
      enrolled in school 12,109 100.0   Native 39,231 96.3
Nursery school, preschool 986 8.1       Born in United States 38,886 95.5
Kindergarten 945 7.8           State of residence 26,792 65.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 5,685 46.9           Different state 12,094 29.7
High school (grades 9-12) 3,175 26.2       Born outside United States 345 0.8
College or graduate school 1,318 10.9   Foreign born 1,504 3.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 827 2.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 349 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 21,752 100.0       Not a citizen 1,155 2.8
Less than 9th grade 789 3.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,340 10.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 7,189 33.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,504 100.0
Some college, no degree 6,382 29.3   Europe 255 17.0
Associate degree 1,594 7.3   Asia 113 7.5
Bachelor's degree 2,606 12.0   Africa 25 1.7
Graduate or professional degree 852 3.9   Oceania 5 0.3
        Latin America 1,004 66.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.6 (X)   Northern America 102 6.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 36,245 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 28,744 100.0   English only 33,173 91.5
Never married 6,566 22.8   Language other than English 3,072 8.5
Now married, except separated 18,219 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,367 3.8
Separated 319 1.1   Spanish 2,324 6.4
Widowed 1,184 4.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,150 3.2
 Female 955 3.3   Other Indo-European languages 409 1.1
Divorced 2,456 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 120 0.3
 Female 1,289 4.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 154 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 64 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 40,735 100.0
           under 18 years 752 100.0     Total ancestries reported 42,308 103.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 378 50.3   Arab 4 0.0
        Czech¹ 36 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 1,988 4.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 26,354 100.0   Dutch 1,040 2.6
Civilian veterans 3,684 14.0   English 10,405 25.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 620 1.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 242 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,783 11.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 12,019 100.0   Greek 174 0.4
With a disability 750 6.2   Hungarian 37 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 20,814 100.0   Irish¹ 2,644 6.5
With a disability 3,260 15.7   Italian 1,190 2.9
 Percent employed 63.1 (X)   Lithuanian 25 0.1
No disability 17,554 84.3   Norwegian 944 2.3
 Percent employed 79.5 (X)   Polish 334 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 2,995 100.0   Portuguese 80 0.2
With a disability 1,330 44.4   Russian 80 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 468 1.1
        Scottish 2,060 5.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 15 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 36,245 100.0   Subsaharan African 28 0.1
Same house in 1995 15,109 41.7   Swedish 1,791 4.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 20,658 57.0   Swiss 264 0.6
 Same county 7,087 19.6   Ukrainian 16 0.0
 Different county 13,571 37.4   United States or American 3,317 8.1
  Same state 8,614 23.8   Welsh 708 1.7
  Different state 4,957 13.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 58 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 478 1.3   Other ancestries 8,957 22.0
 
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.
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