
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 | 33,061 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,002 | 100.0 | Native | 32,430 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 494 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 32,277 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 498 | 5.5 | State of residence | 24,424 | 73.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,842 | 42.7 | Different state | 7,853 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,018 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 153 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,150 | 23.9 | Foreign born | 631 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 376 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 163 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,459 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 468 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,558 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,428 | 11.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,820 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 631 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,251 | 20.8 | Europe | 113 | 17.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,250 | 6.1 | Asia | 209 | 33.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,553 | 12.5 | Africa | 37 | 5.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,599 | 7.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 253 | 40.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.5 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,583 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,751 | 100.0 | English only | 29,383 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 6,095 | 23.7 | Language other than English | 1,200 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,164 | 58.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 390 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 364 | 1.4 | Spanish | 656 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,368 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 260 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,194 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 376 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,760 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 78 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,593 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 130 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,061 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 532 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,849 | 87.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 222 | 41.7 | Arab | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 46 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,358 | 100.0 | Dutch | 512 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,849 | 11.7 | English | 4,682 | 14.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 611 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 159 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,100 | 12.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,107 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 669 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,341 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,340 | 13.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,589 | 18.6 | Italian | 569 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 63.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,752 | 81.4 | Norwegian | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.4 | (X) | Polish | 321 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,764 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,341 | 48.5 | Russian | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 777 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 602 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 37 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,583 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,727 | 44.9 | Swedish | 156 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,392 | 53.6 | Swiss | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,136 | 23.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,256 | 30.3 | United States or American | 6,573 | 19.9 | |
| Same state | 6,589 | 21.5 | Welsh | 229 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 2,667 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 464 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 4,669 | 14.1 | |
| 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)

