
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kitsap 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 | 231,969 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 62,794 | 100.0 | Native | 218,789 | 94.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,337 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 213,505 | 92.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,318 | 5.3 | State of residence | 95,989 | 41.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 29,067 | 46.3 | Different state | 117,516 | 50.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,544 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 5,284 | 2.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,528 | 18.4 | Foreign born | 13,180 | 5.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,598 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8,094 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 148,704 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,086 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,242 | 2.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,489 | 7.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 37,804 | 25.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 13,180 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 46,047 | 31.0 | Europe | 2,411 | 18.3 | |
| Associate degree | 13,455 | 9.0 | Asia | 7,604 | 57.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 25,276 | 17.0 | Africa | 135 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 12,391 | 8.3 | Oceania | 268 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,388 | 10.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.8 | (X) | Northern America | 1,374 | 10.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 216,623 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 180,589 | 100.0 | English only | 198,612 | 91.7 | |
| Never married | 40,474 | 22.4 | Language other than English | 18,011 | 8.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 106,986 | 59.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,244 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 3,197 | 1.8 | Spanish | 5,419 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 9,575 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,450 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 7,669 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,885 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 20,357 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 694 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 11,308 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8,198 | 3.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,003 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 231,969 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,305 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 266,924 | 115.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,373 | 41.5 | Arab | 453 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,327 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,080 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 159,345 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,369 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 37,892 | 23.8 | English | 30,738 | 13.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,195 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,269 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 44,871 | 19.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 54,797 | 100.0 | Greek | 656 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,516 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 742 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 124,016 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 31,529 | 13.6 | |
| With a disability | 22,412 | 18.1 | Italian | 8,296 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 52.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 402 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 101,604 | 81.9 | Norwegian | 16,817 | 7.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 4,651 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 23,267 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,067 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 10,020 | 43.1 | Russian | 1,756 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,941 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 8,340 | 3.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 381 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 216,623 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 452 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 105,448 | 48.7 | Swedish | 8,674 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 106,391 | 49.1 | Swiss | 1,040 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 50,795 | 23.4 | Ukrainian | 593 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 55,596 | 25.7 | United States or American | 13,570 | 5.8 | |
| Same state | 19,701 | 9.1 | Welsh | 3,028 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 35,895 | 16.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 287 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,784 | 2.2 | Other ancestries | 61,400 | 26.5 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

