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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jasper 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 10,117 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,708 100.0   Native 10,094 99.8
Nursery school, preschool 171 6.3       Born in United States 10,082 99.7
Kindergarten 144 5.3           State of residence 8,916 88.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,211 44.7           Different state 1,166 11.5
High school (grades 9-12) 723 26.7       Born outside United States 12 0.1
College or graduate school 459 16.9   Foreign born 23 0.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 12 0.1
  Population 25 years and over 6,579 100.0       Not a citizen 11 0.1
Less than 9th grade 545 8.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 602 9.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,671 40.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 23 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,440 21.9   Europe 1 4.3
Associate degree 582 8.8   Asia 17 73.9
Bachelor's degree 532 8.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 207 3.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 5 21.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 9,535 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 8,026 100.0   English only 9,392 98.5
Never married 1,772 22.1   Language other than English 143 1.5
Now married, except separated 5,137 64.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 60 0.6
Separated 25 0.3   Spanish 62 0.7
Widowed 531 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 0.3
 Female 472 5.9   Other Indo-European languages 70 0.7
Divorced 561 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 22 0.2
 Female 315 3.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 11 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 10,117 100.0
           under 18 years 76 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,037 79.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 27 35.5   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 19 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 7,497 100.0   Dutch 198 2.0
Civilian veterans 1,022 13.6   English 879 8.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 319 3.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,551 35.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,523 100.0   Greek 5 0.0
With a disability 219 8.7   Hungarian 21 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,327 100.0   Irish¹ 799 7.9
With a disability 824 15.5   Italian 103 1.0
 Percent employed 53.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 4,503 84.5   Norwegian 43 0.4
 Percent employed 83.3 (X)   Polish 11 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,608 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 720 44.8   Russian 10 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 101 1.0
        Scottish 146 1.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 9,535 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 6,828 71.6   Swedish 44 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,706 28.4   Swiss 62 0.6
 Same county 1,514 15.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,192 12.5   United States or American 1,044 10.3
  Same state 881 9.2   Welsh 71 0.7
  Different state 311 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 3 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 1 0.0   Other ancestries 608 6.0
 
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.
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