
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Weber 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 | 196,533 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 59,292 | 100.0 | Native | 183,995 | 93.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,783 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 182,285 | 92.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,549 | 6.0 | State of residence | 128,349 | 65.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,817 | 43.5 | Different state | 53,936 | 27.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,428 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 1,710 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,715 | 19.8 | Foreign born | 12,538 | 6.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6,947 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,248 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 111,156 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,290 | 4.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,957 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 11,665 | 10.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 30,675 | 27.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 12,538 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 33,682 | 30.3 | Europe | 1,362 | 10.9 | |
| Associate degree | 8,012 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,688 | 13.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 15,775 | 14.2 | Africa | 127 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,390 | 5.7 | Oceania | 118 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 8,957 | 71.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.0 | (X) | Northern America | 286 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 179,238 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 146,299 | 100.0 | English only | 156,669 | 87.4 | |
| Never married | 36,561 | 25.0 | Language other than English | 22,569 | 12.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 86,069 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,477 | 5.3 | |
| Separated | 2,218 | 1.5 | Spanish | 16,889 | 9.4 | |
| Widowed | 6,986 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,918 | 4.4 | |
| Female | 5,633 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,325 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 14,465 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 720 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 7,844 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,001 | 1.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 751 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 196,533 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,799 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 206,377 | 105.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,668 | 43.9 | Arab | 381 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 412 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9,522 | 4.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 135,019 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,591 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 18,627 | 13.8 | English | 53,050 | 27.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,886 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 874 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 21,402 | 10.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 53,602 | 100.0 | Greek | 650 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 3,827 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 262 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 103,578 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,682 | 5.9 | |
| With a disability | 18,317 | 17.7 | Italian | 6,273 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 63.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 169 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 85,261 | 82.3 | Norwegian | 4,584 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 1,481 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 19,640 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 258 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 7,407 | 37.7 | Russian | 518 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,290 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 8,865 | 4.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 91 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 179,238 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 356 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 92,701 | 51.7 | Swedish | 6,720 | 3.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 82,083 | 45.8 | Swiss | 1,995 | 1.0 | |
| Same county | 46,736 | 26.1 | Ukrainian | 86 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 35,347 | 19.7 | United States or American | 12,573 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 17,590 | 9.8 | Welsh | 3,818 | 1.9 | |
| Different state | 17,757 | 9.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 79 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,454 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 47,509 | 24.2 | |
| 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)

