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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Johnson 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 111,006 100.0
      enrolled in school 45,029 100.0   Native 103,908 93.6
Nursery school, preschool 1,955 4.3       Born in United States 103,225 93.0
Kindergarten 1,293 2.9           State of residence 69,431 62.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 9,804 21.8           Different state 33,794 30.4
High school (grades 9-12) 5,092 11.3       Born outside United States 683 0.6
College or graduate school 26,885 59.7   Foreign born 7,098 6.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 4,777 4.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,946 1.8
  Population 25 years and over 62,859 100.0       Not a citizen 5,152 4.6
Less than 9th grade 1,752 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,231 3.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 12,449 19.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 7,098 100.0
Some college, no degree 11,835 18.8   Europe 1,097 15.5
Associate degree 4,672 7.4   Asia 4,098 57.7
Bachelor's degree 16,437 26.1   Africa 672 9.5
Graduate or professional degree 13,483 21.4   Oceania 61 0.9
        Latin America 952 13.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 93.7 (X)   Northern America 218 3.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 47.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 104,761 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 92,413 100.0   English only 93,749 89.5
Never married 39,514 42.8   Language other than English 11,012 10.5
Now married, except separated 42,268 45.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,803 3.6
Separated 587 0.6   Spanish 3,286 3.1
Widowed 3,209 3.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,097 1.0
 Female 2,667 2.9   Other Indo-European languages 3,725 3.6
Divorced 6,835 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 958 0.9
 Female 3,796 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 3,156 3.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,461 1.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 111,006 100.0
           under 18 years 503 100.0     Total ancestries reported 129,955 117.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 216 42.9   Arab 400 0.4
        Czech¹ 4,929 4.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2,101 1.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 88,678 100.0   Dutch 3,160 2.8
Civilian veterans 7,560 8.5   English 11,413 10.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 3,105 2.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 531 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 39,341 35.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 27,890 100.0   Greek 397 0.4
With a disability 1,945 7.0   Hungarian 290 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 67,262 100.0   Irish¹ 18,678 16.8
With a disability 7,524 11.2   Italian 2,613 2.4
 Percent employed 71.9 (X)   Lithuanian 236 0.2
No disability 59,738 88.8   Norwegian 5,059 4.6
 Percent employed 82.9 (X)   Polish 2,425 2.2
     Population 65 years and over 7,907 100.0   Portuguese 59 0.1
With a disability 2,946 37.3   Russian 857 0.8
        Scotch-Irish 1,758 1.6
        Scottish 2,236 2.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 155 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 104,761 100.0   Subsaharan African 870 0.8
Same house in 1995 42,303 40.4   Swedish 3,670 3.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 58,906 56.2   Swiss 1,257 1.1
 Same county 23,349 22.3   Ukrainian 190 0.2
 Different county 35,557 33.9   United States or American 5,127 4.6
  Same state 20,563 19.6   Welsh 1,401 1.3
  Different state 14,994 14.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 136 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 3,552 3.4   Other ancestries 17,561 15.8
 
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.
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