
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Juneau City and Borough
[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 | 30,711 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,777 | 100.0 | Native | 28,951 | 94.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 677 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 28,509 | 92.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 390 | 4.4 | State of residence | 11,662 | 38.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,960 | 45.1 | Different state | 16,847 | 54.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,860 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 442 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,890 | 21.5 | Foreign born | 1,760 | 5.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 741 | 2.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,042 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 19,899 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 718 | 2.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 373 | 1.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 986 | 5.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,370 | 22.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,760 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,684 | 28.6 | Europe | 285 | 16.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,319 | 6.6 | Asia | 945 | 53.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,585 | 23.0 | Africa | 11 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,582 | 13.0 | Oceania | 29 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 244 | 13.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.2 | (X) | Northern America | 246 | 14.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 36.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 28,711 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 23,686 | 100.0 | English only | 25,983 | 90.5 | |
| Never married | 6,884 | 29.1 | Language other than English | 2,728 | 9.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,808 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 885 | 3.1 | |
| Separated | 405 | 1.7 | Spanish | 675 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 888 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 151 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 720 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 484 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,701 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 140 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,563 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,126 | 3.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 494 | 1.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 30,711 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 365 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,458 | 118.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 174 | 47.7 | Arab | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 164 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 402 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,096 | 100.0 | Dutch | 723 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,749 | 12.4 | English | 4,032 | 13.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,178 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 265 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,790 | 18.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,346 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 504 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 109 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,101 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,996 | 13.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,559 | 13.4 | Italian | 1,004 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 64.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 16,542 | 86.6 | Norwegian | 1,742 | 5.7 | |
| Percent employed | 83.0 | (X) | Polish | 449 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,867 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 74 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 818 | 43.8 | Russian | 281 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 842 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,131 | 3.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 63 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 28,711 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,954 | 45.1 | Swedish | 1,185 | 3.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,341 | 53.4 | Swiss | 207 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 8,968 | 31.2 | Ukrainian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,373 | 22.2 | United States or American | 1,372 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 2,368 | 8.2 | Welsh | 284 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 4,005 | 13.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 416 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 10,940 | 35.6 | |
| 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)

