
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pendleton 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 | 14,390 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,590 | 100.0 | Native | 14,311 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 192 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 14,262 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 210 | 5.8 | State of residence | 11,769 | 81.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,920 | 53.5 | Different state | 2,493 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 923 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 49 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 345 | 9.6 | Foreign born | 79 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 70 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,081 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 64 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 978 | 10.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,491 | 16.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,259 | 46.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 79 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,195 | 13.2 | Europe | 5 | 6.3 | |
| Associate degree | 280 | 3.1 | Asia | 6 | 7.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 548 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 330 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 68 | 86.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,400 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,979 | 100.0 | English only | 13,132 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 2,235 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 268 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,852 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Separated | 206 | 1.9 | Spanish | 169 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 597 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 498 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 71 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,089 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 601 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 14,390 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 346 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,152 | 77.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 193 | 55.8 | Arab | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,310 | 100.0 | Dutch | 166 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,342 | 13.0 | English | 1,291 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 214 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,726 | 18.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,602 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 317 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,253 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,560 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,034 | 24.6 | Italian | 181 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 49.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,219 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 89 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,435 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 681 | 47.5 | Russian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 147 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 125 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,400 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,667 | 57.2 | Swedish | 100 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,666 | 42.3 | Swiss | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,687 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,979 | 22.2 | United States or American | 3,394 | 23.6 | |
| Same state | 2,326 | 17.4 | Welsh | 72 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 653 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 67 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 984 | 6.8 | |
| 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)

