DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Mitchell 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 | 23,932 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,545 | 100.0 | Native | 23,558 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 435 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 23,470 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 382 | 5.8 | State of residence | 20,127 | 84.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,220 | 49.2 | Different state | 3,343 | 14.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,683 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 88 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 825 | 12.6 | Foreign born | 374 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 200 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 98 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,972 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 276 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,818 | 12.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,380 | 22.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,298 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 374 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,674 | 17.9 | Europe | 49 | 13.1 | |
| Associate degree | 437 | 2.9 | Asia | 33 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 884 | 5.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 481 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 281 | 75.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.3 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 2.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,238 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,459 | 100.0 | English only | 21,353 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 5,084 | 27.5 | Language other than English | 885 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,164 | 49.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 455 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 1,046 | 5.7 | Spanish | 658 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,629 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 423 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 1,268 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 130 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,536 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 853 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,932 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 780 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,506 | 73.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 357 | 45.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 27 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,336 | 100.0 | Dutch | 110 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,814 | 10.5 | English | 1,104 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 107 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 487 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,696 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 570 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,917 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 986 | 4.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,429 | 28.8 | Italian | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 52.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,488 | 71.2 | Norwegian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 73.4 | (X) | Polish | 99 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,640 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 45 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,171 | 44.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 291 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 264 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,238 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 286 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,616 | 61.2 | Swedish | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,382 | 37.7 | Swiss | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 4,639 | 20.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,743 | 16.8 | United States or American | 3,811 | 15.9 | |
| Same state | 2,778 | 12.5 | Welsh | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 965 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 240 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 9,656 | 40.3 | |
| 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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