
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Johnson 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 | 8,560 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,318 | 100.0 | Native | 8,544 | 99.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 173 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 8,529 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 146 | 6.3 | State of residence | 7,685 | 89.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,004 | 43.3 | Different state | 844 | 9.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 708 | 30.5 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 287 | 12.4 | Foreign born | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,206 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 824 | 15.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,133 | 21.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,052 | 39.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 16 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 619 | 11.9 | Europe | 7 | 43.8 | |
| Associate degree | 174 | 3.3 | Asia | 4 | 25.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 249 | 4.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 155 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 31.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,976 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,714 | 100.0 | English only | 7,877 | 98.8 | |
| Never married | 1,916 | 28.5 | Language other than English | 99 | 1.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,290 | 49.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 226 | 3.4 | Spanish | 61 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 664 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 535 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 35 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 618 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 353 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,560 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 330 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,562 | 65.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 210 | 63.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,973 | 100.0 | Dutch | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 589 | 9.9 | English | 297 | 3.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 39 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 88 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,930 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 131 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,273 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 423 | 4.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,262 | 29.5 | Italian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 42.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,011 | 70.5 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.6 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,183 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 680 | 57.5 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 42 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,976 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 84 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,589 | 70.1 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,320 | 29.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,321 | 16.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 999 | 12.5 | United States or American | 1,886 | 22.0 | |
| Same state | 652 | 8.2 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 347 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 67 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 2,657 | 31.0 | |
| 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
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