DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Atkinson 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 | 7,609 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,770 | 100.0 | Native | 6,692 | 87.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 109 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 6,683 | 87.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 115 | 6.5 | State of residence | 5,668 | 74.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,025 | 57.9 | Different state | 1,015 | 13.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 421 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 100 | 5.6 | Foreign born | 917 | 12.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 630 | 8.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 153 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,503 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 764 | 10.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 994 | 22.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 972 | 21.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,620 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 917 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 464 | 10.3 | Europe | 7 | 0.8 | |
| Associate degree | 142 | 3.2 | Asia | 26 | 2.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 207 | 4.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 104 | 2.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 867 | 94.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 56.3 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,885 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,664 | 100.0 | English only | 5,757 | 83.6 | |
| Never married | 1,300 | 23.0 | Language other than English | 1,128 | 16.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,244 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 914 | 13.3 | |
| Separated | 201 | 3.5 | Spanish | 1,072 | 15.6 | |
| Widowed | 477 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 892 | 13.0 | |
| Female | 370 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 442 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 248 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,609 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 255 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,619 | 73.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 174 | 68.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,313 | 100.0 | Dutch | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 508 | 9.6 | English | 299 | 3.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 27 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 89 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,003 | 100.0 | Greek | 18 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 144 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,162 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 365 | 4.8 | |
| With a disability | 890 | 21.4 | Italian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 42.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,272 | 78.6 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 75.0 | (X) | Polish | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 710 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 378 | 53.2 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 50 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 58 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,885 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,145 | 60.2 | Swedish | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,483 | 36.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,478 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,005 | 14.6 | United States or American | 1,921 | 25.2 | |
| Same state | 631 | 9.2 | Welsh | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 374 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 257 | 3.7 | Other ancestries | 2,687 | 35.3 | |
| 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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