
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 14,560 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,331 | 100.0 | Native | 14,455 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 214 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 14,415 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 211 | 6.3 | State of residence | 12,501 | 85.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,635 | 49.1 | Different state | 1,914 | 13.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 819 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 40 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 452 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 105 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 48 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,898 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,115 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,268 | 12.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,786 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 105 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,962 | 19.8 | Europe | 26 | 24.8 | |
| Associate degree | 809 | 8.2 | Asia | 52 | 49.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 624 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 334 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 10 | 9.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.9 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 16.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,706 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,689 | 100.0 | English only | 13,433 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 2,170 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 273 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,933 | 59.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 153 | 1.3 | Spanish | 129 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,183 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,009 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 82 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,250 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 671 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,560 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 130 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,930 | 81.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 113 | 86.9 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,077 | 100.0 | Dutch | 306 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,483 | 13.4 | English | 1,275 | 8.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 280 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,779 | 19.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,129 | 100.0 | Greek | 26 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 183 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,702 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,527 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,611 | 20.9 | Italian | 229 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 55.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,091 | 79.1 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 142 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,517 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,128 | 44.8 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 300 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 143 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,706 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,141 | 66.7 | Swedish | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,556 | 33.2 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,799 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,757 | 12.8 | United States or American | 3,693 | 25.4 | |
| Same state | 1,317 | 9.6 | Welsh | 58 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 440 | 3.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,035 | 7.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

