
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rawlins 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 | 2,966 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 666 | 100.0 | Native | 2,955 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 37 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 2,947 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 5.1 | State of residence | 2,094 | 70.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 342 | 51.4 | Different state | 853 | 28.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 217 | 32.6 | Born outside United States | 8 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 36 | 5.4 | Foreign born | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,152 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 149 | 6.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 181 | 8.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 743 | 34.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 11 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 587 | 27.3 | Europe | 2 | 18.2 | |
| Associate degree | 149 | 6.9 | Asia | 3 | 27.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 277 | 12.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 66 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 18.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 36.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,838 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,447 | 100.0 | English only | 2,730 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 456 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 108 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,549 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 10 | 0.4 | Spanish | 32 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 259 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 223 | 9.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 65 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 173 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 74 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,966 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 8 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,994 | 100.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 299 | 10.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,258 | 100.0 | Dutch | 55 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 354 | 15.7 | English | 258 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 93 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,113 | 37.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 636 | 100.0 | Greek | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 25 | 3.9 | Hungarian | 56 | 1.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,432 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 259 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 258 | 18.0 | Italian | 34 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,174 | 82.0 | Norwegian | 23 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 80.2 | (X) | Polish | 34 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 718 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 271 | 37.7 | Russian | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 36 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 51 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,838 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,964 | 69.2 | Swedish | 127 | 4.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 874 | 30.8 | Swiss | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 466 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 408 | 14.4 | United States or American | 251 | 8.5 | |
| Same state | 175 | 6.2 | Welsh | 22 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 233 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 233 | 7.9 | |
| 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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