
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Freeborn 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 | 32,584 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,375 | 100.0 | Native | 31,573 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 433 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 31,444 | 96.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 333 | 4.5 | State of residence | 24,532 | 75.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,758 | 51.0 | Different state | 6,912 | 21.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,062 | 28.0 | Born outside United States | 129 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 789 | 10.7 | Foreign born | 1,011 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 491 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 304 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,363 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 707 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,961 | 8.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,245 | 10.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,434 | 37.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,011 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,199 | 23.2 | Europe | 171 | 16.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,662 | 7.4 | Asia | 97 | 9.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,066 | 9.2 | Africa | 16 | 1.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 796 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 709 | 70.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.2 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 1.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,787 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,378 | 100.0 | English only | 28,622 | 93.0 | |
| Never married | 5,855 | 22.2 | Language other than English | 2,165 | 7.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,777 | 59.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,132 | 3.7 | |
| Separated | 313 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,589 | 5.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,193 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 916 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 1,823 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 528 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,240 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 195 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,120 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 32,584 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 222 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,624 | 124.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 108 | 48.6 | Arab | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,102 | 3.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,890 | 8.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,806 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,192 | 3.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,696 | 14.9 | English | 1,851 | 5.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 684 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 203 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,606 | 32.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,083 | 100.0 | Greek | 39 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 579 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,478 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,682 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,934 | 16.8 | Italian | 199 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 60.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,544 | 83.2 | Norwegian | 12,097 | 37.1 | |
| Percent employed | 84.6 | (X) | Polish | 814 | 2.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,811 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,231 | 38.4 | Russian | 78 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 201 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 261 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,787 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,805 | 64.3 | Swedish | 1,223 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,740 | 34.9 | Swiss | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 6,836 | 22.2 | Ukrainian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,904 | 12.7 | United States or American | 800 | 2.5 | |
| Same state | 2,229 | 7.2 | Welsh | 113 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,675 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 242 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 3,427 | 10.5 | |
| 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)

