Auburn, WA

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:5303180, place: Auburn city, Washington)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 9,632 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 462 (4.8%)
Kindergarten: 552 (5.73%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 4,907 (50.94%)
High school (grades 9-12): 2,093 (21.73%)
College or graduate school: 1,618 (16.8%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 25,569 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 1,253 (4.9%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 3,139 (12.28%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 8,172 (31.96%)
Some college, no degree: 6,832 (26.72%)
Associate degree: 2,176 (8.51%)
Bachelor's degree: 2,874 (11.24%)
Graduate or professional degree: 1,123 (4.39%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 82.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 15.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 31,225 (100%)
Never married: 8,361 (26.78%)
Now married, except separated: 15,603 (49.97%)
Separated: 706 (2.26%)
Total Widowed: 1,618 (5.18%)
Widowed Female: 1,348 (4.32%)
Total Divorced: 4,937 (15.81%)
Divorced Female: 2,786 (8.92%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 558 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 254 (45.52%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 29,543 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 4,402 (14.9%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 9,161 (100%)
--With a disability: 720 (7.86%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 23,152 (100%)
--With a disability: 4,819 (20.81%)
----Percent employed: 57.7%
--No disability: 18,333 (79.19%)
----Percent employed: 79.8%
Population 65 years and over: 4,518 (100%)
--With a disability: 2,218 (49.09%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 37,102 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 14,482 (39.03%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 20,685 (55.75%)
--Same county: 14,029 (37.81%)
--Different county: 6,656 (17.94%)
----Same state: 3,454 (9.31%)
----Different state: 3,202 (8.63%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 1,935 (5.22%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 40,279 (100%)
Native: 35,775 (88.82%)
--Born in United States: 35,225 (100%)
----State of residence: 20,403 (50.65%)
----Different state: 14,822 (36.8%)
--Born outside United States: 550 (1.37%)
Foreign born: 4,504 (11.18%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 2,762 (6.86%)
--Naturalized citizen: 1,519 (3.77%)
--Not a citizen: 2,985 (7.41%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 4,504 (100%)
Europe: 1,308 (29.04%)
Asia: 1,462 (32.46%)
Africa: 184 (4.09%)
Oceania: 51 (1.13%)
Latin America: 1,188 (26.38%)
Northern America: 311 (6.9%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 37,102 (100%)
English only: 32,055 (86.4%)
Language other than English: 5,047 (13.6%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2,821 (7.6%)
--Spanish: 1,894 (5.1%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 933 (2.51%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 1,733 (4.67%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1,112 (3%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 1,125 (3.03%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 663 (1.79%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 40,279 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 42,507% (105.53%)
Arab: 289 (0.72%)
Czech: 222 (0.55%)
Danish: 361 (0.9%)
Dutch: 695 (1.73%)
English: 4,270 (10.6%)
French (except Basque): 1,261 (3.13%)
French Canadian: 341 (0.85%)
German: 7,304 (18.13%)
Greek: 106 (0.26%)
Hungarian: 110 (0.27%)
Irish: 4,537 (11.26%)
Italian: 1,169 (2.9%)
Lithuanian: 64 (0.16%)
Norwegian: 2,351 (5.84%)
Polish: 799 (1.98%)
Portuguese: 137 (0.34%)
Russian: 560 (1.39%)
Scotch-Irish: 875 (2.17%)
Scottish: 908 (2.25%)
Slovak: 44 (0.11%)
Subsaharan African: 208 (0.52%)
Swedish: 1,241 (3.08%)
Swiss: 156 (0.39%)
Ukrainian: 809 (2.01%)
United States or American: 2,047 (5.08%)
Welsh: 400 (0.99%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 47 (0.12%)
Other ancestries: 11,196 (27.8%)

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