
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Honolulu 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 | 876,156 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 234,038 | 100.0 | Native | 707,910 | 80.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 12,975 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 681,898 | 77.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 12,113 | 5.2 | State of residence | 488,897 | 55.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 95,339 | 40.7 | Different state | 193,001 | 22.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 48,104 | 20.6 | Born outside United States | 26,012 | 3.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 65,507 | 28.0 | Foreign born | 168,246 | 19.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 57,228 | 6.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 102,311 | 11.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 579,998 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 65,935 | 7.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 42,087 | 7.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 45,801 | 7.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 161,348 | 27.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 168,246 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 123,521 | 21.3 | Europe | 7,104 | 4.2 | |
| Associate degree | 45,595 | 7.9 | Asia | 143,258 | 85.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 109,571 | 18.9 | Africa | 747 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 52,075 | 9.0 | Oceania | 10,512 | 6.2 | |
| Latin America | 4,338 | 2.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2,287 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 819,914 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 701,668 | 100.0 | English only | 583,116 | 71.1 | |
| Never married | 215,344 | 30.7 | Language other than English | 236,798 | 28.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 374,352 | 53.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113,550 | 13.8 | |
| Separated | 11,154 | 1.6 | Spanish | 13,304 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 41,670 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,201 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 33,968 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 9,594 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 59,148 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,328 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 33,336 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 212,306 | 25.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107,508 | 13.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 876,156 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 36,668 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 986,157 | 112.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 10,302 | 28.1 | Arab | 1,146 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,576 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,723 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 630,076 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,357 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 88,177 | 14.0 | English | 33,174 | 3.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 11,821 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,339 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 46,128 | 5.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 181,581 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,168 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 11,824 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 1,318 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 477,572 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 35,346 | 4.0 | |
| With a disability | 80,311 | 16.8 | Italian | 14,600 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 572 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 397,261 | 83.2 | Norwegian | 6,154 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 7,117 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 115,946 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 26,093 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 46,860 | 40.4 | Russian | 2,815 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,756 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 8,243 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 307 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 819,914 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,599 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 461,892 | 56.3 | Swedish | 5,733 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 319,403 | 39.0 | Swiss | 1,119 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 213,643 | 26.1 | Ukrainian | 782 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 105,760 | 12.9 | United States or American | 12,392 | 1.4 | |
| Same state | 10,049 | 1.2 | Welsh | 2,482 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 95,711 | 11.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,285 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 38,619 | 4.7 | Other ancestries | 749,012 | 85.5 | |
| 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)

