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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coos 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 33,111 100.0
      enrolled in school 7,435 100.0   Native 31,789 96.0
Nursery school, preschool 397 5.3       Born in United States 31,565 95.3
Kindergarten 391 5.3           State of residence 21,994 66.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,629 48.8           Different state 9,571 28.9
High school (grades 9-12) 2,086 28.1       Born outside United States 224 0.7
College or graduate school 932 12.5   Foreign born 1,322 4.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 192 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 841 2.5
  Population 25 years and over 23,490 100.0       Not a citizen 481 1.5
Less than 9th grade 2,024 8.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,410 14.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 9,770 41.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,322 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,596 15.3   Europe 232 17.5
Associate degree 1,891 8.1   Asia 114 8.6
Bachelor's degree 1,897 8.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 902 3.8   Oceania 7 0.5
        Latin America 33 2.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.9 (X)   Northern America 936 70.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 31,434 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 27,023 100.0   English only 25,886 82.4
Never married 5,916 21.9   Language other than English 5,548 17.6
Now married, except separated 15,303 56.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,201 3.8
Separated 293 1.1   Spanish 143 0.5
Widowed 2,538 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 51 0.2
 Female 2,018 7.5   Other Indo-European languages 5,328 16.9
Divorced 2,973 11.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,141 3.6
 Female 1,440 5.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 76 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 33,111 100.0
           under 18 years 268 100.0     Total ancestries reported 37,696 113.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 123 45.9   Arab 39 0.1
        Czech¹ 36 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 45 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 25,533 100.0   Dutch 316 1.0
Civilian veterans 4,286 16.8   English 5,829 17.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 8,099 24.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 6,053 18.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,604 4.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 6,911 100.0   Greek 37 0.1
With a disability 651 9.4   Hungarian 33 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 18,351 100.0   Irish¹ 4,628 14.0
With a disability 4,678 25.5   Italian 1,342 4.1
 Percent employed 60.8 (X)   Lithuanian 79 0.2
No disability 13,673 74.5   Norwegian 436 1.3
 Percent employed 81.9 (X)   Polish 472 1.4
     Population 65 years and over 5,690 100.0   Portuguese 160 0.5
With a disability 2,705 47.5   Russian 142 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 616 1.9
        Scottish 1,395 4.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 23 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 31,434 100.0   Subsaharan African 9 0.0
Same house in 1995 20,144 64.1   Swedish 273 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 11,115 35.4   Swiss 19 0.1
 Same county 7,116 22.6   Ukrainian 49 0.1
 Different county 3,999 12.7   United States or American 2,912 8.8
  Same state 1,347 4.3   Welsh 143 0.4
  Different state 2,652 8.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 175 0.6   Other ancestries 2,902 8.8
 
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.
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