Colorado City, CO

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:0815935, place: Colorado City CDP, Colorado)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 620 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 35 (5.65%)
Kindergarten: 36 (5.81%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 334 (53.87%)
High school (grades 9-12): 144 (23.23%)
College or graduate school: 71 (11.45%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,267 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 26 (2.05%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 115 (9.08%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 340 (26.84%)
Some college, no degree: 356 (28.1%)
Associate degree: 127 (10.02%)
Bachelor's degree: 181 (14.29%)
Graduate or professional degree: 122 (9.63%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 88.9%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 23.9%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,496 (100%)
Never married: 251 (16.78%)
Now married, except separated: 987 (65.98%)
Separated: 6 (0.4%)
Total Widowed: 71 (4.75%)
Widowed Female: 60 (4.01%)
Total Divorced: 181 (12.1%)
Divorced Female: 114 (7.62%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 56 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 49 (87.5%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,374 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 269 (19.58%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 550 (100%)
--With a disability: 24 (4.36%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,082 (100%)
--With a disability: 258 (23.84%)
----Percent employed: 54.7%
--No disability: 824 (76.16%)
----Percent employed: 73.8%
Population 65 years and over: 247 (100%)
--With a disability: 65 (26.32%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,879 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 735 (39.12%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,127 (59.98%)
--Same county: 647 (34.43%)
--Different county: 480 (25.55%)
----Same state: 283 (15.06%)
----Different state: 197 (10.48%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 17 (0.9%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,993 (100%)
Native: 1,954 (98.04%)
--Born in United States: 1,943 (100%)
----State of residence: 898 (45.06%)
----Different state: 1,045 (52.43%)
--Born outside United States: 11 (0.55%)
Foreign born: 39 (1.96%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 20 (1%)
--Naturalized citizen: 11 (0.55%)
--Not a citizen: 28 (1.4%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 39 (100%)
Europe: 0 (0%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 20 (51.28%)
Northern America: 19 (48.72%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,879 (100%)
English only: 1,821 (96.91%)
Language other than English: 58 (3.09%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 25 (1.33%)
--Spanish: 40 (2.13%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 20 (1.06%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 18 (0.96%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 5 (0.27%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,993 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,218% (111.29%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 9 (0.45%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 65 (3.26%)
English: 268 (13.45%)
French (except Basque): 80 (4.01%)
French Canadian: 8 (0.4%)
German: 364 (18.26%)
Greek: 6 (0.3%)
Hungarian: 14 (0.7%)
Irish: 196 (9.83%)
Italian: 200 (10.04%)
Lithuanian: 6 (0.3%)
Norwegian: 55 (2.76%)
Polish: 26 (1.3%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 44 (2.21%)
Scottish: 54 (2.71%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 51 (2.56%)
Swiss: 7 (0.35%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 249 (12.49%)
Welsh: 45 (2.26%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 471 (23.63%)

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