
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Uintah 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 | 25,224 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,936 | 100.0 | Native | 24,883 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 529 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 24,817 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 434 | 5.5 | State of residence | 18,288 | 72.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,936 | 49.6 | Different state | 6,529 | 25.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,264 | 28.5 | Born outside United States | 66 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 773 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 341 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 154 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 163 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,736 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 178 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 395 | 2.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,380 | 17.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,945 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 341 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,413 | 24.8 | Europe | 82 | 24.0 | |
| Associate degree | 793 | 5.8 | Asia | 57 | 16.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,324 | 9.6 | Africa | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 486 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 184 | 54.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.8 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 4.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,108 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,241 | 100.0 | English only | 21,607 | 93.5 | |
| Never married | 4,318 | 23.7 | Language other than English | 1,501 | 6.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,186 | 61.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 366 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 283 | 1.6 | Spanish | 550 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 831 | 4.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 219 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 673 | 3.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 218 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,623 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 906 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 102 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,224 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 440 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 24,387 | 96.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 259 | 58.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 99 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 967 | 3.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,473 | 100.0 | Dutch | 439 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,125 | 12.9 | English | 6,071 | 24.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 457 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,726 | 10.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,903 | 100.0 | Greek | 87 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 519 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,541 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,563 | 6.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,603 | 20.8 | Italian | 283 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 55.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 9,938 | 79.2 | Norwegian | 702 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 72.7 | (X) | Polish | 97 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,408 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,197 | 49.7 | Russian | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 294 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 722 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,108 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,823 | 59.8 | Swedish | 540 | 2.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,153 | 39.6 | Swiss | 233 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 5,001 | 21.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,152 | 18.0 | United States or American | 2,410 | 9.6 | |
| Same state | 2,250 | 9.7 | Welsh | 380 | 1.5 | |
| Different state | 1,902 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 132 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 6,134 | 24.3 | |
| 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)

