DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Izard County
[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 | 13,249 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,658 | 100.0 | Native | 13,145 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 108 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 13,121 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 157 | 5.9 | State of residence | 7,774 | 58.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,325 | 49.8 | Different state | 5,347 | 40.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 611 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 24 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 457 | 17.2 | Foreign born | 104 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 79 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,524 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 965 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,575 | 16.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,477 | 36.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 104 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,986 | 20.9 | Europe | 51 | 49.0 | |
| Associate degree | 409 | 4.3 | Asia | 17 | 16.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 718 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 394 | 4.1 | Oceania | 5 | 4.8 | |
| Latin America | 21 | 20.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.3 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 9.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,572 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,970 | 100.0 | English only | 12,278 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 1,595 | 14.5 | Language other than English | 294 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,013 | 63.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 125 | 1.1 | Spanish | 162 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,110 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 910 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 116 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,127 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 504 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,249 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 184 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,175 | 76.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 120 | 65.2 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 46 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,471 | 100.0 | Dutch | 250 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,832 | 17.5 | English | 1,289 | 9.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 248 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 50 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,256 | 9.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,523 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 164 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,720 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,178 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,798 | 26.8 | Italian | 180 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 40.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,922 | 73.2 | Norwegian | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.5 | (X) | Polish | 114 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,604 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,173 | 45.0 | Russian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 264 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 251 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,572 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,950 | 55.3 | Swedish | 156 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,446 | 43.3 | Swiss | 47 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,370 | 18.9 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,076 | 24.5 | United States or American | 2,905 | 21.9 | |
| Same state | 1,644 | 13.1 | Welsh | 77 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,432 | 11.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 176 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 1,706 | 12.9 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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