
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 | 23,445 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,335 | 100.0 | Native | 23,331 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 224 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 23,319 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 249 | 4.7 | State of residence | 19,397 | 82.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,656 | 49.8 | Different state | 3,922 | 16.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,428 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 12 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 778 | 14.6 | Foreign born | 114 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 36 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 54 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,735 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 60 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,832 | 18.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,870 | 18.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,525 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 114 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,303 | 14.6 | Europe | 5 | 4.4 | |
| Associate degree | 749 | 4.8 | Asia | 67 | 58.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 800 | 5.1 | Africa | 17 | 14.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 656 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 25 | 21.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,018 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,914 | 100.0 | English only | 21,628 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 3,306 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 390 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,836 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 112 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 392 | 2.1 | Spanish | 228 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,419 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 104 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,156 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 120 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,961 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 1,097 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 23,445 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 448 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,493 | 61.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 270 | 60.3 | Arab | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,830 | 100.0 | Dutch | 195 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,001 | 11.2 | English | 2,046 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 223 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,108 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,059 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 488 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,832 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,377 | 5.9 | |
| With a disability | 4,989 | 36.1 | Italian | 113 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 31.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,843 | 63.9 | Norwegian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.2 | (X) | Polish | 64 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,867 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,836 | 64.0 | Russian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 239 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 321 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,018 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,377 | 65.3 | Swedish | 65 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,526 | 34.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 5,176 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,350 | 10.7 | United States or American | 7,004 | 29.9 | |
| Same state | 1,524 | 6.9 | Welsh | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 826 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 115 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,550 | 6.6 | |
| 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)

