Census 2000, Summary File 1 Special Profile GQ-1: GROUP QUARTERS POPULATION BY AGE, SEX, & DETAILED GQ TYPE Area 3 Area Name: Whatcom County Area Type: State-County (Summary Level 050) +===================================================================================================================================================+ |Table PCT16. GROUP QUARTERS POPULATION BY GROUP QUARTERS TYPE | |Universe: Population in group quarters (Total*: 4,969) | |Institutionalized population: 1,129 |Noninstitutionalized population: 3,840| | Correctional institutions: 289 | College dormitories (college GQ on and off campus) 3,190| | Federal prisons and detention centers 0 | Military quarters: 0| | Halfway houses 55 | On base: 0| | Local jails, police lockups, etc. 234 | Barracks and other GQ for military personnel 0| | Military disciplinary barracks 0 | Transient quarters for temporary residents 0| | State prisons 0 | Military ships 0| | Other types of correctional institutions 0 | Group homes: 260| | Nursing homes 750 | Homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse 0| | Hospitals/wards, hospices, and schools for the handicapped: 36 | Homes for the mentally ill 66| | Hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill: 6 | Homes for the mentally retarded 38| | Hospices or homes for chronically ill 6 | Homes for the physically handicapped 0| | Military hospitals or wards for chronically ill 0 | Other group homes 156| | Other hospitals or wards for chronically ill 0 | Religious group quarters 4| | Hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse 26 | Workers' dormitories: 0| | Mental (Psychiatric) hospitals or wards 0 | Agriculture workers' dormitories on farms 0| | Schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded 4 | Job Corps and vocational training facilities 0| | Schools, hospitals, or wards for the physically handicapped: 0 | Other workers' dormitories 0| | Institutions for the deaf 0 | Crews of maritime vessels 28| | Institutions for the blind 0 | Other nonhousehold living situations 14| | Orthopedic wards/institutions for the physically handicapped 0 | Other noninstitutional group quarters 344| | Wards in general hospitals for patients with no usual home elsewhere 0 | | | Wards in military hospitls for patients with no usual home elsewhere 0 | | | Juvenile institutions: 54 | | | Long-term care: 13 | | | Homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children 0 | | | Residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children 13 | | | Training schools for juvenile delinquents 0 | | | Short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent chdrn 41 | | | Type of juvenile institution unknown 0 | | |*The group quarters population forms 3.0% of the area's total population. | |___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| |Table PCT17. GROUP QUARTERS POPULATION BY SEX BY AGE BY GROUP QUARTERS TYPE | |Universe: Population in group quarters (Total: 4,969) | | ---------All Ages--------- ---Under 18--- ---18 to 64--- -65 and over- | | ----Male---- ---Female--- Male Female Male Female Male Female| |All types of group quarters: 2,280 2,689 65 32 1,920 2,010 295 647| | as a percent of total GQ population 45.9 54.1 1.3 0.6 38.6 40.5 5.9 13.0| | No. Pct No. Pct | | Institutionalized population: 570 11.5 559 11.2 46 8 310 74 214 477| | Correctional institutions 259 5.2 30 0.6 0 0 251 28 8 2| | Nursing homes 245 4.9 505 10.2 0 0 39 30 206 475| | Hosp./wards & hospices for chronically ill 4 0.1 2 0.0 0 0 4 2 0 0| | Mental (Psychiatric) hospitals/wards 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0| | Juvenile institutions 46 0.9 8 0.2 45 8 1 0 0 0| | All Other institutions (see Table PCT16) 16 0.3 14 0.3 1 0 15 14 0 0| | Noninstitutionalized population: 1,710 34.4 2,130 42.9 19 24 1,610 1,936 81 170| | College dormitories (GQ on & off campus) 1,349 27.1 1,841 37.0 0 5 1,349 1,836 0 0| | Military quarters 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0| | Other noninstitutional group quarters 361 7.3 289 5.8 19 19 261 100 81 170| +===================================================================================================================================================+ Source: Census 2000 Summary File 1 [machine-readable data file]/prepared by the U.S.Census Bureau, 2001 (www.census.gov) 02JUL01, Page 377 Profile prepared by Washington State Office of Financial Management, Olympia WA (360) 902-0592 www.ofm.wa.gov E-Mial: ofm.forecasting@ofm.wa.gov