DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Webster 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 | 2,390 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 549 | 100.0 | Native | 2,343 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 33 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 2,325 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 6.7 | State of residence | 1,973 | 82.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 282 | 51.4 | Different state | 352 | 14.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 150 | 27.3 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 47 | 8.6 | Foreign born | 47 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 34 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,588 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 42 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 259 | 16.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 356 | 22.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 539 | 33.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 47 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 241 | 15.2 | Europe | 2 | 4.3 | |
| Associate degree | 49 | 3.1 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 110 | 6.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 34 | 2.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 45 | 95.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,236 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,903 | 100.0 | English only | 2,106 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 490 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 130 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,017 | 53.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 43 | 2.3 | Spanish | 106 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 206 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 157 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 24 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 147 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 67 | 3.5 | 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 | 2,390 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 74 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,832 | 76.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 30 | 40.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,797 | 100.0 | Dutch | 17 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 199 | 11.1 | English | 147 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 53 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 546 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 62 | 11.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,337 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 121 | 5.1 | |
| With a disability | 382 | 28.6 | Italian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 61.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 955 | 71.4 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 68.0 | (X) | Polish | 20 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 351 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 195 | 55.6 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 12 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,236 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 76 | 3.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,554 | 69.5 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 645 | 28.8 | Swiss | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 236 | 10.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 409 | 18.3 | United States or American | 460 | 19.2 | |
| Same state | 322 | 14.4 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 87 | 3.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 911 | 38.1 | |
| 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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