DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oregon city
[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 19,356 100.0
      enrolled in school 5,097 100.0   Native 18,912 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 343 6.7       Born in United States 18,877 97.5
Kindergarten 308 6.0           State of residence 16,243 83.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,193 43.0           Different state 2,634 13.6
High school (grades 9-12) 1,274 25.0       Born outside United States 35 0.2
College or graduate school 979 19.2   Foreign born 444 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 48 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 377 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 13,222 100.0       Not a citizen 67 0.3
Less than 9th grade 537 4.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,439 10.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,166 39.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 444 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,895 21.9   Europe 257 57.9
Associate degree 1,090 8.2   Asia 144 32.4
Bachelor's degree 1,364 10.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 731 5.5   Oceania 5 1.1
        Latin America 16 3.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.1 (X)   Northern America 22 5.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 18,304 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 15,597 100.0   English only 17,300 94.5
Never married 3,568 22.9   Language other than English 1,004 5.5
Now married, except separated 9,141 58.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 304 1.7
Separated 172 1.1   Spanish 395 2.2
Widowed 1,204 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 114 0.6
 Female 1,012 6.5   Other Indo-European languages 288 1.6
Divorced 1,512 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 66 0.4
 Female 823 5.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 135 0.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 19,356 100.0
           under 18 years 265 100.0     Total ancestries reported 21,032 108.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 115 43.4   Arab 172 0.9
        Czech¹ 243 1.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 33 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 14,705 100.0   Dutch 475 2.5
Civilian veterans 2,340 15.9   English 1,513 7.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,445 7.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 178 0.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,550 33.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,397 100.0   Greek 181 0.9
With a disability 428 9.7   Hungarian 1,412 7.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 10,625 100.0   Irish¹ 2,118 10.9
With a disability 1,768 16.6   Italian 867 4.5
 Percent employed 56.2 (X)   Lithuanian 5 0.0
No disability 8,857 83.4   Norwegian 36 0.2
 Percent employed 80.2 (X)   Polish 1,724 8.9
     Population 65 years and over 2,961 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,266 42.8   Russian 43 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 158 0.8
        Scottish 260 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 120 0.6
  Population 5 years and over 18,304 100.0   Subsaharan African 15 0.1
Same house in 1995 11,056 60.4   Swedish 97 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,169 39.2   Swiss 112 0.6
 Same county 5,361 29.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,808 9.9   United States or American 835 4.3
  Same state 1,234 6.7   Welsh 92 0.5
  Different state 574 3.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 79 0.4   Other ancestries 2,343 12.1
 
Date: August 27, 2004
 
-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.