
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Reno 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 | 64,790 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,601 | 100.0 | Native | 63,522 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 975 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 63,210 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 822 | 5.3 | State of residence | 48,165 | 74.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,228 | 46.3 | Different state | 15,045 | 23.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,903 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 312 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,673 | 17.1 | Foreign born | 1,268 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 478 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 581 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 43,082 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 687 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,380 | 5.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,055 | 11.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,167 | 30.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,268 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,890 | 27.6 | Europe | 142 | 11.2 | |
| Associate degree | 3,132 | 7.3 | Asia | 267 | 21.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,937 | 11.5 | Africa | 28 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,521 | 5.9 | Oceania | 16 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 734 | 57.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 81 | 6.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 60,643 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 51,857 | 100.0 | English only | 57,085 | 94.1 | |
| Never married | 10,513 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 3,558 | 5.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,808 | 59.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,194 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 533 | 1.0 | Spanish | 1,792 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,701 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 702 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 3,019 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,488 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 6,302 | 12.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 386 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,103 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 186 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 79 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 64,790 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 786 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 61,525 | 95.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 501 | 63.7 | Arab | 149 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 427 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 223 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 48,911 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,733 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,982 | 14.3 | English | 7,882 | 12.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,700 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 241 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,429 | 28.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,251 | 100.0 | Greek | 39 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,156 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 33,689 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,573 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 6,889 | 20.4 | Italian | 721 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 64.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 26,800 | 79.6 | Norwegian | 617 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 81.8 | (X) | Polish | 390 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,725 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 41 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,059 | 41.7 | Russian | 421 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,378 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 946 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 60,643 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 33,272 | 54.9 | Swedish | 1,608 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 26,881 | 44.3 | Swiss | 545 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 16,330 | 26.9 | Ukrainian | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 10,551 | 17.4 | United States or American | 6,914 | 10.7 | |
| Same state | 6,608 | 10.9 | Welsh | 494 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 3,943 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 490 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 9,844 | 15.2 | |
| 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)

