DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pinal 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 | 179,727 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 42,725 | 100.0 | Native | 163,484 | 91.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,469 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 162,197 | 90.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,319 | 5.4 | State of residence | 75,843 | 42.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 21,221 | 49.7 | Different state | 86,354 | 48.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 9,876 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 1,287 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,840 | 16.0 | Foreign born | 16,243 | 9.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7,029 | 3.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,326 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 119,102 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,917 | 6.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 12,681 | 10.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,832 | 16.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 36,255 | 30.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 16,243 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 29,418 | 24.7 | Europe | 958 | 5.9 | |
| Associate degree | 6,739 | 5.7 | Asia | 825 | 5.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 8,964 | 7.5 | Africa | 171 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,213 | 4.4 | Oceania | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 13,486 | 83.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.7 | (X) | Northern America | 771 | 4.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 167,639 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 142,071 | 100.0 | English only | 125,420 | 74.8 | |
| Never married | 31,643 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 42,219 | 25.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 81,950 | 57.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,809 | 9.4 | |
| Separated | 2,692 | 1.9 | Spanish | 36,495 | 21.8 | |
| Widowed | 9,035 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,208 | 8.5 | |
| Female | 6,709 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,840 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 16,751 | 11.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 301 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 7,677 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 750 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 369 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 179,727 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,773 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 169,184 | 94.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,246 | 47.1 | Arab | 205 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 671 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,234 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 134,653 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,424 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 23,961 | 17.8 | English | 15,704 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 4,819 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 1,260 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 23,452 | 13.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 38,612 | 100.0 | Greek | 311 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,128 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 445 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 85,934 | 100.0 | Irish� | 15,403 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 20,537 | 23.9 | Italian | 4,615 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 51.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 184 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 65,397 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 3,439 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 66.8 | (X) | Polish | 2,827 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 28,881 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 341 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 11,542 | 40.0 | Russian | 485 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,571 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,901 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 156 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 167,639 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 376 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 79,159 | 47.2 | Swedish | 2,518 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 84,554 | 50.4 | Swiss | 550 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 32,275 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 185 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 52,279 | 31.2 | United States or American | 8,752 | 4.9 | |
| Same state | 26,642 | 15.9 | Welsh | 1,182 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 25,637 | 15.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 95 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,926 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 72,079 | 40.1 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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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