
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Labette 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 | 22,835 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,956 | 100.0 | Native | 22,609 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 320 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 22,530 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 333 | 5.6 | State of residence | 16,168 | 70.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,683 | 45.0 | Different state | 6,362 | 27.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,554 | 26.1 | Born outside United States | 79 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,066 | 17.9 | Foreign born | 226 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 60 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 136 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,007 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 90 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 869 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,684 | 11.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,781 | 31.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 226 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,982 | 26.5 | Europe | 40 | 17.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,308 | 8.7 | Asia | 130 | 57.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,584 | 10.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 799 | 5.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 43 | 19.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.0 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 5.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,464 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,123 | 100.0 | English only | 20,827 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 3,871 | 21.4 | Language other than English | 637 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,169 | 56.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 123 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 224 | 1.2 | Spanish | 439 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,779 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 74 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,499 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 2,080 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 1,085 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 91 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,835 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 205 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,472 | 85.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 119 | 58.0 | Arab | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 69 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 62 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,001 | 100.0 | Dutch | 547 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,319 | 13.6 | English | 2,100 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 584 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 71 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,092 | 17.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,394 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 382 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,789 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,401 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,636 | 22.4 | Italian | 263 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 60.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,153 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 136 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 132 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,667 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,764 | 48.1 | Russian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 401 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 231 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,464 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,291 | 57.3 | Swedish | 282 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,066 | 42.2 | Swiss | 66 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 5,218 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,848 | 17.9 | United States or American | 3,458 | 15.1 | |
| Same state | 1,944 | 9.1 | Welsh | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,904 | 8.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 107 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,400 | 19.3 | |
| 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)

