Lake Havasu City, AZ

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:0439370, place: Lake Havasu City city, Arizona)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 8,362 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 595 (7.12%)
Kindergarten: 398 (4.76%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 3,845 (45.98%)
High school (grades 9-12): 1,807 (21.61%)
College or graduate school: 1,717 (20.53%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 31,347 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 1,013 (3.23%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 4,074 (13%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 10,217 (32.59%)
Some college, no degree: 9,939 (31.71%)
Associate degree: 1,982 (6.32%)
Bachelor's degree: 2,597 (8.28%)
Graduate or professional degree: 1,525 (4.86%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 83.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 35,210 (100%)
Never married: 5,207 (14.79%)
Now married, except separated: 22,243 (63.17%)
Separated: 556 (1.58%)
Total Widowed: 3,174 (9.01%)
Widowed Female: 2,544 (7.23%)
Total Divorced: 4,030 (11.45%)
Divorced Female: 2,115 (6.01%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 696 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 286 (41.09%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 33,767 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 7,415 (21.96%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 7,360 (100%)
--With a disability: 483 (6.56%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 21,886 (100%)
--With a disability: 4,459 (20.37%)
----Percent employed: 48.2%
--No disability: 17,427 (79.63%)
----Percent employed: 70.7%
Population 65 years and over: 10,475 (100%)
--With a disability: 3,537 (33.77%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 39,983 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 19,330 (48.35%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 20,171 (50.45%)
--Same county: 7,341 (18.36%)
--Different county: 12,830 (32.09%)
----Same state: 1,584 (3.96%)
----Different state: 11,246 (28.13%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 482 (1.21%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 41,859 (100%)
Native: 39,525 (94.42%)
--Born in United States: 39,257 (100%)
----State of residence: 5,194 (12.41%)
----Different state: 34,063 (81.38%)
--Born outside United States: 268 (0.64%)
Foreign born: 2,334 (5.58%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 702 (1.68%)
--Naturalized citizen: 1,165 (2.78%)
--Not a citizen: 1,169 (2.79%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 2,334 (100%)
Europe: 731 (31.32%)
Asia: 212 (9.08%)
Africa: 14 (0.6%)
Oceania: 4 (0.17%)
Latin America: 1,000 (42.84%)
Northern America: 373 (15.98%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 39,983 (100%)
English only: 36,746 (91.9%)
Language other than English: 3,237 (8.1%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1,126 (2.82%)
--Spanish: 2,278 (5.7%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 830 (2.08%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 639 (1.6%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 172 (0.43%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 204 (0.51%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 66 (0.17%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 41,859 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 47,105% (112.53%)
Arab: 52 (0.12%)
Czech: 331 (0.79%)
Danish: 504 (1.2%)
Dutch: 1,046 (2.5%)
English: 6,651 (15.89%)
French (except Basque): 2,002 (4.78%)
French Canadian: 575 (1.37%)
German: 8,945 (21.37%)
Greek: 181 (0.43%)
Hungarian: 331 (0.79%)
Irish: 6,095 (14.56%)
Italian: 3,019 (7.21%)
Lithuanian: 68 (0.16%)
Norwegian: 1,123 (2.68%)
Polish: 1,384 (3.31%)
Portuguese: 275 (0.66%)
Russian: 324 (0.77%)
Scotch-Irish: 920 (2.2%)
Scottish: 1,189 (2.84%)
Slovak: 138 (0.33%)
Subsaharan African: 3 (0.01%)
Swedish: 1,210 (2.89%)
Swiss: 115 (0.27%)
Ukrainian: 131 (0.31%)
United States or American: 2,769 (6.62%)
Welsh: 347 (0.83%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 8 (0.02%)
Other ancestries: 7,369 (17.6%)

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