
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 | 8,196 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,718 | 100.0 | Native | 8,135 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 157 | 9.1 | Born in United States | 8,038 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 128 | 7.5 | State of residence | 4,386 | 53.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 837 | 48.7 | Different state | 3,652 | 44.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 419 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 97 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 177 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 61 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 36 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,813 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 49 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 827 | 14.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 803 | 13.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,472 | 42.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 61 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 869 | 14.9 | Europe | 35 | 57.4 | |
| Associate degree | 215 | 3.7 | Asia | 10 | 16.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 393 | 6.8 | Africa | 5 | 8.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 234 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 11 | 18.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,782 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,707 | 100.0 | English only | 7,581 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,387 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 201 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,946 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 100 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 71 | 1.1 | Spanish | 130 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 624 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 511 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 42 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 679 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 305 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,196 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 95 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,256 | 76.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 43 | 45.3 | Arab | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,256 | 100.0 | Dutch | 126 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 968 | 15.5 | English | 621 | 7.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 135 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,069 | 25.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,567 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 73 | 4.7 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,587 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 456 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 989 | 21.6 | Italian | 115 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 45.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,598 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.2 | (X) | Polish | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,373 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 727 | 52.9 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 185 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 36 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,782 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,427 | 69.7 | Swedish | 67 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,227 | 28.6 | Swiss | 94 | 1.1 | |
| Same county | 1,031 | 13.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,196 | 15.4 | United States or American | 1,640 | 20.0 | |
| Same state | 392 | 5.0 | Welsh | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 804 | 10.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 128 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 589 | 7.2 | |
| 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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