
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Juan 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 | 14,077 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,789 | 100.0 | Native | 13,240 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 257 | 9.2 | Born in United States | 13,122 | 93.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 3.9 | State of residence | 4,932 | 35.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,461 | 52.4 | Different state | 8,190 | 58.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 615 | 22.1 | Born outside United States | 118 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 348 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 837 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 195 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 507 | 3.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,691 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 330 | 2.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 64 | 0.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 533 | 5.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,997 | 18.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 837 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,124 | 29.2 | Europe | 400 | 47.8 | |
| Associate degree | 676 | 6.3 | Asia | 99 | 11.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,672 | 25.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,625 | 15.2 | Oceania | 9 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 123 | 14.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 94.4 | (X) | Northern America | 206 | 24.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 40.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,539 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,771 | 100.0 | English only | 12,878 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 2,011 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 661 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,114 | 60.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 132 | 1.1 | Spanish | 296 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 776 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 602 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 267 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,738 | 14.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 59 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,054 | 9.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 68 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,077 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 76 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,769 | 126.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 23 | 30.3 | Arab | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 103 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 261 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,345 | 100.0 | Dutch | 410 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,132 | 18.8 | English | 3,178 | 22.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 927 | 6.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 189 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,961 | 21.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,549 | 100.0 | Greek | 34 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 166 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,298 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,223 | 15.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,359 | 16.4 | Italian | 559 | 4.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 86 | 0.6 | |
| No disability | 6,939 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 857 | 6.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.3 | (X) | Polish | 261 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,621 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 82 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 781 | 29.8 | Russian | 144 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 525 | 3.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 725 | 5.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,539 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,789 | 50.1 | Swedish | 599 | 4.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,580 | 48.6 | Swiss | 90 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 2,653 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,927 | 29.0 | United States or American | 672 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 1,891 | 14.0 | Welsh | 347 | 2.5 | |
| Different state | 2,036 | 15.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 170 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 2,470 | 17.5 | |
| 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)

