DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clark 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 | 345,238 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 92,185 | 100.0 | Native | 315,881 | 91.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,912 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 312,371 | 90.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,407 | 5.9 | State of residence | 110,153 | 31.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 44,869 | 48.7 | Different state | 202,218 | 58.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 20,502 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 3,510 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 15,495 | 16.8 | Foreign born | 29,357 | 8.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 16,729 | 4.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10,146 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 217,293 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19,211 | 5.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,846 | 3.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,732 | 9.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 58,574 | 27.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 29,343 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 66,024 | 30.4 | Europe | 11,692 | 39.8 | |
| Associate degree | 18,120 | 8.3 | Asia | 8,945 | 30.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 31,596 | 14.5 | Africa | 582 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,401 | 7.5 | Oceania | 574 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 5,860 | 20.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.8 | (X) | Northern America | 1,690 | 5.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 318,152 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 261,863 | 100.0 | English only | 281,613 | 88.5 | |
| Never married | 59,635 | 22.8 | Language other than English | 36,539 | 11.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 152,463 | 58.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,638 | 5.5 | |
| Separated | 4,669 | 1.8 | Spanish | 11,369 | 3.6 | |
| Widowed | 12,966 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,176 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 10,458 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 15,131 | 4.8 | |
| Divorced | 32,130 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,876 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 17,294 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8,557 | 2.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,200 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 345,238 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,885 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 374,930 | 108.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,856 | 38.0 | Arab | 934 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,965 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,169 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 245,632 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,141 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 37,432 | 15.2 | English | 42,939 | 12.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,380 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,779 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 69,984 | 20.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 84,464 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,183 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,036 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 1,154 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 198,692 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 39,296 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 35,314 | 17.8 | Italian | 10,691 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 60.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 272 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 163,378 | 82.2 | Norwegian | 18,632 | 5.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.3 | (X) | Polish | 5,922 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 32,214 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,068 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 14,251 | 44.2 | Russian | 6,684 | 1.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,969 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 10,091 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 289 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 318,152 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 898 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 140,720 | 44.2 | Swedish | 12,334 | 3.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 167,543 | 52.7 | Swiss | 2,813 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 90,541 | 28.5 | Ukrainian | 3,827 | 1.1 | |
| Different county | 77,002 | 24.2 | United States or American | 23,189 | 6.7 | |
| Same state | 17,061 | 5.4 | Welsh | 3,232 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 59,941 | 18.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 147 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9,889 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 80,948 | 23.4 | |
| 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)
