
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Trinity 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 | 13,779 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,836 | 100.0 | Native | 13,411 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 211 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 13,367 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 195 | 6.9 | State of residence | 10,688 | 77.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,474 | 52.0 | Different state | 2,679 | 19.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 700 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 44 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 256 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 368 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 171 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 117 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,623 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 251 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 936 | 9.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,650 | 17.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,807 | 39.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 368 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,030 | 21.1 | Europe | 59 | 16.0 | |
| Associate degree | 296 | 3.1 | Asia | 28 | 7.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 623 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 281 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 269 | 73.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.1 | (X) | Northern America | 12 | 3.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,965 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,209 | 100.0 | English only | 12,304 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 1,845 | 16.5 | Language other than English | 661 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,665 | 59.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 277 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 235 | 2.1 | Spanish | 517 | 4.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,215 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 242 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 975 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 104 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,249 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 601 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,779 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 379 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,304 | 82.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 238 | 62.8 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 134 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,626 | 100.0 | Dutch | 194 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,025 | 19.1 | English | 1,101 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 439 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,262 | 9.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,788 | 100.0 | Greek | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 209 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,093 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,558 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,941 | 27.4 | Italian | 105 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 45.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,152 | 72.6 | Norwegian | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 63 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,905 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,341 | 46.2 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 243 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 175 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,965 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,299 | 56.3 | Swedish | 73 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,487 | 42.3 | Swiss | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,218 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,269 | 25.2 | United States or American | 2,527 | 18.3 | |
| Same state | 2,742 | 21.1 | Welsh | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 527 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 179 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 3,197 | 23.2 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

