
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Andrew 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 | 16,492 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,144 | 100.0 | Native | 16,389 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 257 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 16,332 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 259 | 6.3 | State of residence | 12,932 | 78.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,995 | 48.1 | Different state | 3,400 | 20.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,036 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 57 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 597 | 14.4 | Foreign born | 103 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 38 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 42 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,847 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 61 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 535 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,123 | 10.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,499 | 41.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 103 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,247 | 20.7 | Europe | 41 | 39.8 | |
| Associate degree | 405 | 3.7 | Asia | 35 | 34.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,420 | 13.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 618 | 5.7 | Oceania | 2 | 1.9 | |
| Latin America | 23 | 22.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,474 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,964 | 100.0 | English only | 15,132 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 2,496 | 19.3 | Language other than English | 342 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,154 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 107 | 0.8 | Spanish | 183 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 898 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 754 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 133 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,309 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 639 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,492 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 240 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,425 | 81.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 76 | 31.7 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 43 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 135 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,136 | 100.0 | Dutch | 395 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,769 | 14.6 | English | 1,604 | 9.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 369 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 37 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,864 | 23.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,906 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 249 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,102 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,962 | 11.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,655 | 18.2 | Italian | 97 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,447 | 81.8 | Norwegian | 203 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 81.0 | (X) | Polish | 194 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,197 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 847 | 38.6 | Russian | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 264 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 279 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,474 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,158 | 59.2 | Swedish | 249 | 1.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,232 | 40.3 | Swiss | 338 | 2.0 | |
| Same county | 2,431 | 15.7 | Ukrainian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,801 | 24.6 | United States or American | 1,904 | 11.5 | |
| Same state | 2,789 | 18.0 | Welsh | 61 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,012 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 84 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,331 | 8.1 | |
| 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)

