
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Natrona 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 | 66,533 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,067 | 100.0 | Native | 65,336 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,299 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 64,925 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 976 | 5.4 | State of residence | 31,431 | 47.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,853 | 43.5 | Different state | 33,494 | 50.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,035 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 411 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,904 | 21.6 | Foreign born | 1,197 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 486 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 574 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 42,656 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 623 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,202 | 2.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,804 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,057 | 30.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,197 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,208 | 28.6 | Europe | 402 | 33.6 | |
| Associate degree | 3,847 | 9.0 | Asia | 232 | 19.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,719 | 13.4 | Africa | 17 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,819 | 6.6 | Oceania | 7 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 381 | 31.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.3 | (X) | Northern America | 158 | 13.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 62,306 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 52,567 | 100.0 | English only | 59,107 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 12,206 | 23.2 | Language other than English | 3,199 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 29,396 | 55.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 767 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 665 | 1.3 | Spanish | 1,894 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,226 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 433 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,528 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 830 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 7,074 | 13.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 201 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,879 | 7.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 190 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 73 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 66,533 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 784 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 71,763 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 428 | 54.6 | Arab | 22 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 587 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 967 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 49,250 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,638 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,146 | 14.5 | English | 8,910 | 13.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,554 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 429 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 16,813 | 25.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,986 | 100.0 | Greek | 268 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,550 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 204 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 37,418 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,763 | 14.7 | |
| With a disability | 7,075 | 18.9 | Italian | 2,124 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 59.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 63 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 30,343 | 81.1 | Norwegian | 3,262 | 4.9 | |
| Percent employed | 81.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,270 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,932 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 88 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,954 | 37.2 | Russian | 354 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,697 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,754 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 46 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 62,306 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 67 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 31,776 | 51.0 | Swedish | 2,021 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 30,009 | 48.2 | Swiss | 283 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 18,458 | 29.6 | Ukrainian | 132 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 11,551 | 18.5 | United States or American | 5,715 | 8.6 | |
| Same state | 4,617 | 7.4 | Welsh | 865 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 6,934 | 11.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 521 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 9,867 | 14.8 | |
| 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)

