
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Uinta 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 | 19,742 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,873 | 100.0 | Native | 19,240 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 290 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 19,097 | 96.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 414 | 7.0 | State of residence | 6,477 | 32.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,894 | 49.3 | Different state | 12,620 | 63.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,695 | 28.9 | Born outside United States | 143 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 580 | 9.9 | Foreign born | 502 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 219 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 196 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,443 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 306 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 392 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,352 | 11.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,069 | 35.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 502 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,033 | 26.5 | Europe | 85 | 16.9 | |
| Associate degree | 885 | 7.7 | Asia | 33 | 6.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,275 | 11.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 437 | 3.8 | Oceania | 6 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 357 | 71.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.8 | (X) | Northern America | 21 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,107 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,477 | 100.0 | English only | 17,097 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 3,180 | 22.0 | Language other than English | 1,010 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,773 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 354 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 143 | 1.0 | Spanish | 826 | 4.6 | |
| Widowed | 568 | 3.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 321 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 467 | 3.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 129 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,813 | 12.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 922 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,742 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 199 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,435 | 108.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 133 | 66.8 | Arab | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 125 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 593 | 3.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,175 | 100.0 | Dutch | 352 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,594 | 12.1 | English | 5,685 | 28.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 660 | 3.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 140 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,300 | 16.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,750 | 100.0 | Greek | 146 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 431 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,712 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,844 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,630 | 15.2 | Italian | 730 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 63.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,082 | 84.8 | Norwegian | 656 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 193 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,321 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 513 | 38.8 | Russian | 74 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 266 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 904 | 4.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,107 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,303 | 51.4 | Swedish | 787 | 4.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,702 | 48.1 | Swiss | 106 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 4,831 | 26.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,871 | 21.4 | United States or American | 1,261 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 1,110 | 6.1 | Welsh | 252 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 2,761 | 15.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 102 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 3,271 | 16.6 | |
| 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)

