
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Utah 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 | 368,536 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 148,809 | 100.0 | Native | 345,349 | 93.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,044 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 341,587 | 92.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 6,568 | 4.4 | State of residence | 226,128 | 61.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 51,609 | 34.7 | Different state | 115,459 | 31.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 25,586 | 17.2 | Born outside United States | 3,762 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 57,002 | 38.3 | Foreign born | 23,187 | 6.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14,129 | 3.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6,049 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 166,240 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 17,138 | 4.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,234 | 2.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,943 | 6.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 31,855 | 19.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 23,187 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 50,827 | 30.6 | Europe | 2,446 | 10.5 | |
| Associate degree | 16,088 | 9.7 | Asia | 3,115 | 13.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 35,908 | 21.6 | Africa | 309 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,385 | 9.9 | Oceania | 750 | 3.2 | |
| Latin America | 14,338 | 61.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.9 | (X) | Northern America | 2,229 | 9.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 31.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 328,190 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 263,078 | 100.0 | English only | 290,564 | 88.5 | |
| Never married | 85,888 | 32.6 | Language other than English | 37,626 | 11.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 154,235 | 58.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,730 | 4.2 | |
| Separated | 2,078 | 0.8 | Spanish | 24,457 | 7.5 | |
| Widowed | 7,974 | 3.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,403 | 3.2 | |
| Female | 6,685 | 2.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,638 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 12,903 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,356 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 7,629 | 2.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4,795 | 1.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,777 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 368,536 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,025 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 409,345 | 111.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,960 | 32.5 | Arab | 508 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 600 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 28,495 | 7.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 243,145 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,906 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 17,137 | 7.0 | English | 123,349 | 33.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,270 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,132 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 39,793 | 10.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 115,450 | 100.0 | Greek | 818 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 7,001 | 6.1 | Hungarian | 360 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 187,241 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 17,194 | 4.7 | |
| With a disability | 22,211 | 11.9 | Italian | 7,734 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 65.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 99 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 165,030 | 88.1 | Norwegian | 10,587 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,990 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 22,746 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 954 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 9,036 | 39.7 | Russian | 892 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,698 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 17,575 | 4.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 127 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 328,190 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 389 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 141,756 | 43.2 | Swedish | 15,891 | 4.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 173,324 | 52.8 | Swiss | 5,800 | 1.6 | |
| Same county | 92,113 | 28.1 | Ukrainian | 323 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 81,211 | 24.7 | United States or American | 25,310 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 25,779 | 7.9 | Welsh | 9,630 | 2.6 | |
| Different state | 55,432 | 16.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 94 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 13,110 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 80,827 | 21.9 | |
| 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)

