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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Phillips 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 26,445 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,079 100.0   Native 26,156 98.9
Nursery school, preschool 650 8.0       Born in United States 26,137 98.8
Kindergarten 506 6.3           State of residence 21,443 81.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,937 48.7           Different state 4,694 17.8
High school (grades 9-12) 2,063 25.5       Born outside United States 19 0.1
College or graduate school 923 11.4   Foreign born 289 1.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 123 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 165 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 15,420 100.0       Not a citizen 124 0.5
Less than 9th grade 2,675 17.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,156 20.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,080 26.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 289 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,847 18.5   Europe 79 27.3
Associate degree 756 4.9   Asia 119 41.2
Bachelor's degree 1,306 8.5   Africa 10 3.5
Graduate or professional degree 600 3.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 74 25.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 62.2 (X)   Northern America 7 2.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 24,190 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 19,419 100.0   English only 23,447 96.9
Never married 5,837 30.1   Language other than English 743 3.1
Now married, except separated 8,771 45.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 263 1.1
Separated 735 3.8   Spanish 352 1.5
Widowed 2,124 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 138 0.6
 Female 1,808 9.3   Other Indo-European languages 295 1.2
Divorced 1,952 10.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 62 0.3
 Female 1,043 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 93 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 63 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 26,445 100.0
           under 18 years 1,006 100.0     Total ancestries reported 21,549 81.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 590 58.6   Arab 11 0.0
        Czech¹ 15 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 17,940 100.0   Dutch 181 0.7
Civilian veterans 1,817 10.1   English 937 3.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 207 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 9 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 707 2.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,451 100.0   Greek 22 0.1
With a disability 811 10.9   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 12,963 100.0   Irish¹ 1,457 5.5
With a disability 4,017 31.0   Italian 146 0.6
 Percent employed 45.8 (X)   Lithuanian 7 0.0
No disability 8,946 69.0   Norwegian 38 0.1
 Percent employed 69.2 (X)   Polish 7 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 3,519 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,971 56.0   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 263 1.0
        Scottish 101 0.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 24,190 100.0   Subsaharan African 387 1.5
Same house in 1995 14,638 60.5   Swedish 33 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 9,461 39.1   Swiss 116 0.4
 Same county 6,812 28.2   Ukrainian 20 0.1
 Different county 2,649 11.0   United States or American 2,085 7.9
  Same state 1,245 5.1   Welsh 25 0.1
  Different state 1,404 5.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 8 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 91 0.4   Other ancestries 14,767 55.8
 
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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