DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Scott 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 | 5,120 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,229 | 100.0 | Native | 4,987 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 66 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 4,967 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 3.9 | State of residence | 3,633 | 71.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 638 | 51.9 | Different state | 1,334 | 26.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 347 | 28.2 | Born outside United States | 20 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 130 | 10.6 | Foreign born | 133 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 55 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 40 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,376 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 93 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 237 | 7.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 285 | 8.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 974 | 28.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 133 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 867 | 25.7 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 236 | 7.0 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 495 | 14.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 282 | 8.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 126 | 94.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.5 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 5.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,777 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,033 | 100.0 | English only | 4,501 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 771 | 19.1 | Language other than English | 276 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,584 | 64.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 134 | 2.8 | |
| Separated | 42 | 1.0 | Spanish | 230 | 4.8 | |
| Widowed | 328 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 2.4 | |
| Female | 257 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 46 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 308 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 171 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 5,120 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 28 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,097 | 99.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 16 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,741 | 100.0 | Dutch | 167 | 3.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 475 | 12.7 | English | 751 | 14.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 210 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,732 | 33.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,184 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 65 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,745 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 527 | 10.3 | |
| With a disability | 428 | 15.6 | Italian | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,317 | 84.4 | Norwegian | 64 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 87.1 | (X) | Polish | 49 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 762 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 314 | 41.2 | Russian | 104 | 2.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 32 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 48 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,777 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,633 | 55.1 | Swedish | 112 | 2.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,135 | 44.7 | Swiss | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,336 | 28.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 799 | 16.7 | United States or American | 494 | 9.6 | |
| Same state | 524 | 11.0 | Welsh | 84 | 1.6 | |
| Different state | 275 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 635 | 12.4 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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