
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Park 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 | 25,786 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,815 | 100.0 | Native | 25,334 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 346 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 25,198 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 290 | 4.3 | State of residence | 10,550 | 40.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,021 | 44.3 | Different state | 14,648 | 56.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,689 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 136 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,469 | 21.6 | Foreign born | 452 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 109 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 296 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,145 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 156 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 630 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,494 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,208 | 30.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 452 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,292 | 25.0 | Europe | 105 | 23.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,464 | 8.5 | Asia | 174 | 38.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,688 | 15.7 | Africa | 14 | 3.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,369 | 8.0 | Oceania | 17 | 3.8 | |
| Latin America | 45 | 10.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.6 | (X) | Northern America | 97 | 21.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,352 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,828 | 100.0 | English only | 23,322 | 95.8 | |
| Never married | 4,253 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 1,030 | 4.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,720 | 61.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 307 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 302 | 1.4 | Spanish | 620 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,319 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 119 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,049 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 239 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 2,234 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,210 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 150 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 112 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,786 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 277 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,614 | 111.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 159 | 57.4 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 226 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 649 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,477 | 100.0 | Dutch | 819 | 3.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,983 | 15.3 | English | 4,147 | 16.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 749 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 263 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,148 | 27.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,179 | 100.0 | Greek | 67 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 453 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 129 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,334 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,301 | 12.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,993 | 13.9 | Italian | 745 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 57.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 51 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 12,341 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 1,227 | 4.8 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 588 | 2.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,528 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 60 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,267 | 35.9 | Russian | 207 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 783 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 910 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 66 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,352 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,456 | 51.1 | Swedish | 1,072 | 4.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,722 | 48.1 | Swiss | 192 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 5,600 | 23.0 | Ukrainian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,122 | 25.1 | United States or American | 1,581 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 1,844 | 7.6 | Welsh | 333 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 4,278 | 17.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 174 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 3,258 | 12.6 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

