DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Watonwan 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 | 11,876 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,074 | 100.0 | Native | 10,927 | 92.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 277 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 10,884 | 91.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 179 | 5.8 | State of residence | 8,961 | 75.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,524 | 49.6 | Different state | 1,923 | 16.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 833 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 43 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 261 | 8.5 | Foreign born | 949 | 8.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 541 | 4.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 149 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,745 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 800 | 6.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,057 | 13.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 810 | 10.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,017 | 39.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 949 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,419 | 18.3 | Europe | 34 | 3.6 | |
| Associate degree | 384 | 5.0 | Asia | 74 | 7.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 847 | 10.9 | Africa | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 211 | 2.7 | Oceania | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 808 | 85.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.9 | (X) | Northern America | 26 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,081 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,223 | 100.0 | English only | 9,318 | 84.1 | |
| Never married | 2,096 | 22.7 | Language other than English | 1,763 | 15.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,517 | 59.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 982 | 8.9 | |
| Separated | 84 | 0.9 | Spanish | 1,524 | 13.8 | |
| Widowed | 879 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 903 | 8.1 | |
| Female | 745 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 152 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 647 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 277 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 82 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,876 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 118 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,938 | 117.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 62 | 52.5 | Arab | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 134 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 230 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,586 | 100.0 | Dutch | 165 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,173 | 13.7 | English | 455 | 3.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 172 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,161 | 43.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,838 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 265 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,038 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 857 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 841 | 13.9 | Italian | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,197 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 2,496 | 21.0 | |
| Percent employed | 83.5 | (X) | Polish | 138 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,047 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 759 | 37.1 | Russian | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 77 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 109 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,081 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,566 | 68.3 | Swedish | 1,065 | 9.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,320 | 30.0 | Swiss | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,987 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,333 | 12.0 | United States or American | 411 | 3.5 | |
| Same state | 729 | 6.6 | Welsh | 95 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 604 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 195 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 2,138 | 18.0 | |
| 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
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