DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clear Creek 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 | 9,322 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,042 | 100.0 | Native | 9,149 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 172 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 9,031 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 3.8 | State of residence | 3,516 | 37.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 957 | 46.9 | Different state | 5,515 | 59.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 535 | 26.2 | Born outside United States | 118 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 300 | 14.7 | Foreign born | 173 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 43 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 103 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,702 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 70 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 75 | 1.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 367 | 5.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,440 | 21.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 173 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,763 | 26.3 | Europe | 99 | 57.2 | |
| Associate degree | 456 | 6.8 | Asia | 22 | 12.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,650 | 24.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 951 | 14.2 | Oceania | 2 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 25 | 14.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.4 | (X) | Northern America | 25 | 14.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 38.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,770 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,630 | 100.0 | English only | 8,462 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 1,681 | 22.0 | Language other than English | 308 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,527 | 59.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 96 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 116 | 1.5 | Spanish | 162 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 202 | 2.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 155 | 2.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 100 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,104 | 14.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 514 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 33 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,322 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 65 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,991 | 117.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 52 | 80.0 | Arab | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Czech� | 93 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 79 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,216 | 100.0 | Dutch | 241 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,093 | 15.1 | English | 1,398 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 297 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 52 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,422 | 26.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,791 | 100.0 | Greek | 75 | 0.8 | |
| With a disability | 197 | 11.0 | Hungarian | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,281 | 100.0 | Irish� | 1,610 | 17.3 | |
| With a disability | 946 | 15.1 | Italian | 443 | 4.8 | |
| Percent employed | 72.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 5,335 | 84.9 | Norwegian | 281 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 84.8 | (X) | Polish | 337 | 3.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 656 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 220 | 33.5 | Russian | 177 | 1.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 270 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 246 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 24 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,770 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,621 | 52.7 | Swedish | 507 | 5.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,042 | 46.1 | Swiss | 68 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 1,119 | 12.8 | Ukrainian | 44 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 2,923 | 33.3 | United States or American | 752 | 8.1 | |
| Same state | 1,663 | 19.0 | Welsh | 168 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 1,260 | 14.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 107 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 1,283 | 13.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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