
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fremont 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 | 8,010 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,936 | 100.0 | Native | 7,877 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 135 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 7,854 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 4.8 | State of residence | 4,830 | 60.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 967 | 49.9 | Different state | 3,024 | 37.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 528 | 27.3 | Born outside United States | 23 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 213 | 11.0 | Foreign born | 133 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 47 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,557 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 86 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 285 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 546 | 9.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,356 | 42.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 133 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,239 | 22.3 | Europe | 17 | 12.8 | |
| Associate degree | 355 | 6.4 | Asia | 20 | 15.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 608 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 168 | 3.0 | Oceania | 13 | 9.8 | |
| Latin America | 83 | 62.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,576 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,389 | 100.0 | English only | 7,268 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 1,104 | 17.3 | Language other than English | 308 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,027 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 135 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 95 | 1.5 | Spanish | 210 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 574 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 452 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 45 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 589 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 302 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 53 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,010 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 103 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,545 | 94.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 58 | 56.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 89 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 134 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,997 | 100.0 | Dutch | 248 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 945 | 15.8 | English | 952 | 11.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 204 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,173 | 27.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,791 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 132 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,161 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,143 | 14.3 | |
| With a disability | 823 | 19.8 | Italian | 92 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 62.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,338 | 80.2 | Norwegian | 178 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 95 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,434 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 547 | 38.1 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 160 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 92 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,576 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,662 | 61.5 | Swedish | 284 | 3.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,869 | 37.9 | Swiss | 73 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 1,196 | 15.8 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,673 | 22.1 | United States or American | 795 | 9.9 | |
| Same state | 816 | 10.8 | Welsh | 94 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 857 | 11.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 45 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 705 | 8.8 | |
| 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
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