
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Scott 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 | 5,537 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,315 | 100.0 | Native | 5,512 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 119 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 5,499 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 5.8 | State of residence | 4,843 | 87.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 634 | 48.2 | Different state | 656 | 11.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 321 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 13 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 165 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 25 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,718 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 241 | 6.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 389 | 10.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,732 | 46.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 25 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 775 | 20.8 | Europe | 13 | 52.0 | |
| Associate degree | 132 | 3.6 | Asia | 4 | 16.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 351 | 9.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 98 | 2.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 32.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,197 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,423 | 100.0 | English only | 5,123 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 884 | 20.0 | Language other than English | 74 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,742 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 47 | 1.1 | Spanish | 46 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 366 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 288 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 24 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 384 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 205 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,537 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 63 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,630 | 83.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 22 | 34.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,156 | 100.0 | Dutch | 108 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 597 | 14.4 | English | 984 | 17.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 67 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,200 | 21.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,262 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 63 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,020 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 599 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 408 | 13.5 | Italian | 73 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 49.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,612 | 86.5 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 83.2 | (X) | Polish | 65 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 857 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 39 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 351 | 41.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 122 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 106 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,197 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,487 | 67.1 | Swedish | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,700 | 32.7 | Swiss | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 872 | 16.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 828 | 15.9 | United States or American | 780 | 14.1 | |
| Same state | 616 | 11.9 | Welsh | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 212 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 404 | 7.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

