
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Francis 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 | 29,329 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,028 | 100.0 | Native | 29,250 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 558 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 29,169 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 534 | 6.7 | State of residence | 22,198 | 75.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,660 | 45.6 | Different state | 6,971 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,129 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 81 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,147 | 14.3 | Foreign born | 79 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 20 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 36 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,173 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,438 | 13.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,896 | 21.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,953 | 32.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 79 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,311 | 18.2 | Europe | 4 | 5.1 | |
| Associate degree | 829 | 4.6 | Asia | 34 | 43.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,138 | 6.3 | Africa | 2 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 608 | 3.3 | Oceania | 1 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 34 | 43.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.1 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 27,089 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 22,547 | 100.0 | English only | 26,494 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 5,635 | 25.0 | Language other than English | 595 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,959 | 53.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 194 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 664 | 2.9 | Spanish | 378 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,080 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,632 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 113 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,209 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,187 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 68 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 29,329 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 969 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,941 | 74.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 610 | 63.0 | Arab | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 44 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 21,148 | 100.0 | Dutch | 190 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,426 | 11.5 | English | 941 | 3.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 315 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,082 | 3.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,164 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 658 | 9.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,996 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,295 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,958 | 28.3 | Italian | 131 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 41.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,038 | 71.7 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 71.8 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,342 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,890 | 56.6 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 154 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 258 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 27,089 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 129 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,651 | 54.1 | Swedish | 68 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,643 | 43.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,040 | 26.0 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,603 | 17.0 | United States or American | 3,512 | 12.0 | |
| Same state | 3,034 | 11.2 | Welsh | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 1,569 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 795 | 2.9 | Other ancestries | 13,694 | 46.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

