DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: King 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 | 1,737,034 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 444,560 | 100.0 | Native | 1,468,749 | 84.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 31,153 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 1,444,144 | 83.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 21,552 | 4.8 | State of residence | 745,973 | 42.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 178,889 | 40.2 | Different state | 698,171 | 40.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 87,382 | 19.7 | Born outside United States | 24,605 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 125,584 | 28.2 | Foreign born | 268,285 | 15.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 131,848 | 7.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 118,436 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,188,740 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 149,849 | 8.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 40,702 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 75,026 | 6.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 227,931 | 19.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 268,267 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 280,812 | 23.6 | Europe | 52,886 | 19.7 | |
| Associate degree | 89,321 | 7.5 | Asia | 137,967 | 51.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 316,451 | 26.6 | Africa | 14,232 | 5.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 158,497 | 13.3 | Oceania | 4,489 | 1.7 | |
| Latin America | 41,066 | 15.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.3 | (X) | Northern America | 17,627 | 6.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 40.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,632,553 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,410,887 | 100.0 | English only | 1,332,933 | 81.6 | |
| Never married | 440,380 | 31.2 | Language other than English | 299,620 | 18.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 722,604 | 51.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 137,671 | 8.4 | |
| Separated | 20,642 | 1.5 | Spanish | 69,351 | 4.2 | |
| Widowed | 68,436 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32,382 | 2.0 | |
| Female | 55,929 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 75,204 | 4.6 | |
| Divorced | 158,825 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26,460 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 91,294 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 137,921 | 8.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72,219 | 4.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,737,034 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 22,616 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,965,101 | 113.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7,903 | 34.9 | Arab | 7,062 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 11,365 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 21,022 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,346,022 | 100.0 | Dutch | 34,016 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 163,815 | 12.2 | English | 209,263 | 12.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 59,696 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14,077 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 292,504 | 16.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 349,496 | 100.0 | Greek | 7,331 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 25,048 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 7,514 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,092,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 193,834 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 165,148 | 15.1 | Italian | 63,452 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 62.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3,491 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 927,652 | 84.9 | Norwegian | 105,043 | 6.0 | |
| Percent employed | 80.9 | (X) | Polish | 35,171 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 175,083 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4,859 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 69,647 | 39.8 | Russian | 25,315 | 1.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 35,755 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 56,205 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,805 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,632,553 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18,693 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 777,858 | 47.6 | Swedish | 64,096 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 778,624 | 47.7 | Swiss | 10,537 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 489,434 | 30.0 | Ukrainian | 11,512 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 289,190 | 17.7 | United States or American | 66,981 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 97,379 | 6.0 | Welsh | 18,986 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 191,811 | 11.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2,180 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 76,071 | 4.7 | Other ancestries | 583,336 | 33.6 | |
| 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
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