DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ferry 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 | 7,260 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,875 | 100.0 | Native | 7,079 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 91 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 7,013 | 96.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 5.2 | State of residence | 4,283 | 59.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 888 | 47.4 | Different state | 2,730 | 37.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 568 | 30.3 | Born outside United States | 66 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 230 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 181 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 93 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,748 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 88 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 194 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 629 | 13.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,634 | 34.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 181 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,302 | 27.4 | Europe | 40 | 22.1 | |
| Associate degree | 347 | 7.3 | Asia | 16 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 425 | 9.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 217 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 31 | 17.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 94 | 51.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,869 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,783 | 100.0 | English only | 6,612 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 1,279 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 257 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,389 | 58.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 90 | 1.6 | Spanish | 125 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 297 | 5.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 232 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 63 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 728 | 12.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 336 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,260 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 97 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,153 | 98.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 54 | 55.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 44 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 71 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,306 | 100.0 | Dutch | 154 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,099 | 20.7 | English | 658 | 9.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 262 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 82 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,094 | 15.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,876 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 183 | 9.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,053 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 817 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 968 | 23.9 | Italian | 145 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 39.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,085 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 229 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 65.3 | (X) | Polish | 88 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 909 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 428 | 47.1 | Russian | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 170 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 184 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,869 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,772 | 54.9 | Swedish | 200 | 2.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,077 | 44.8 | Swiss | 65 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 1,319 | 19.2 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,758 | 25.6 | United States or American | 516 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 1,199 | 17.5 | Welsh | 71 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 559 | 8.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 20 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 2,211 | 30.5 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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