DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pierce 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 | 15,636 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,931 | 100.0 | Native | 15,308 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 230 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 15,278 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 182 | 4.6 | State of residence | 12,016 | 76.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,081 | 52.9 | Different state | 3,262 | 20.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 845 | 21.5 | Born outside United States | 30 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 593 | 15.1 | Foreign born | 328 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 199 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 70 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,131 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 258 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,214 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,848 | 18.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,174 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 328 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,577 | 15.6 | Europe | 49 | 14.9 | |
| Associate degree | 298 | 2.9 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 689 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 331 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 279 | 85.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,612 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,207 | 100.0 | English only | 14,088 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 2,075 | 17.0 | Language other than English | 524 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,607 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 331 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 203 | 1.7 | Spanish | 460 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 989 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 307 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 852 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 64 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,333 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 629 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,636 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 271 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,082 | 70.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 189 | 69.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,499 | 100.0 | Dutch | 67 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,346 | 11.7 | English | 890 | 5.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 41 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 30 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 421 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,697 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 429 | 11.6 | Hungarian | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,949 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 967 | 6.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,734 | 30.6 | Italian | 100 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,215 | 69.4 | Norwegian | 86 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 78.4 | (X) | Polish | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,840 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,008 | 54.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 141 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 108 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,612 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 92 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,132 | 62.5 | Swedish | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,319 | 36.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,655 | 18.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,664 | 18.2 | United States or American | 5,308 | 33.9 | |
| Same state | 1,896 | 13.0 | Welsh | 54 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 768 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 161 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 2,683 | 17.2 | |
| 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
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