
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pope 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 | 11,236 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,750 | 100.0 | Native | 11,131 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 146 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 11,101 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 126 | 4.6 | State of residence | 9,246 | 82.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,404 | 51.1 | Different state | 1,855 | 16.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 827 | 30.1 | Born outside United States | 30 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 247 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 105 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 72 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,719 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 799 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 605 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,583 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 105 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,893 | 24.5 | Europe | 56 | 53.3 | |
| Associate degree | 704 | 9.1 | Asia | 22 | 21.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 829 | 10.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 306 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 1.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.8 | (X) | Northern America | 25 | 23.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,690 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,050 | 100.0 | English only | 10,305 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 1,822 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 385 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,697 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 51 | 0.6 | Spanish | 101 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 932 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 776 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 275 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 548 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 262 | 2.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 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 | 11,236 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 43 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,355 | 127.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 31 | 72.1 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 428 | 3.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 273 | 2.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,452 | 100.0 | Dutch | 271 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,226 | 14.5 | English | 525 | 4.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 379 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 78 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,304 | 38.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,630 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 166 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,611 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 893 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 855 | 15.2 | Italian | 76 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 60.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,756 | 84.8 | Norwegian | 4,461 | 39.7 | |
| Percent employed | 84.4 | (X) | Polish | 271 | 2.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,160 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 781 | 36.2 | Russian | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 89 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 143 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,690 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,019 | 65.7 | Swedish | 1,076 | 9.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,648 | 34.1 | Swiss | 94 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 1,743 | 16.3 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,905 | 17.8 | United States or American | 346 | 3.1 | |
| Same state | 1,474 | 13.8 | Welsh | 31 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 431 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 542 | 4.8 | |
| 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)

