
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bollinger 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 | 12,029 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,686 | 100.0 | Native | 11,981 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 64 | 2.4 | Born in United States | 11,947 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 226 | 8.4 | State of residence | 9,710 | 80.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,497 | 55.7 | Different state | 2,237 | 18.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 679 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 34 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 220 | 8.2 | Foreign born | 48 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 30 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,956 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,200 | 15.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,133 | 14.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,697 | 46.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 48 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,213 | 15.2 | Europe | 29 | 60.4 | |
| Associate degree | 164 | 2.1 | Asia | 6 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 374 | 4.7 | Africa | 2 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 175 | 2.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 10.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.7 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 12.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,291 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,444 | 100.0 | English only | 11,105 | 98.4 | |
| Never married | 1,709 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 186 | 1.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,139 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 110 | 1.2 | Spanish | 81 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 712 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 580 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 774 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 424 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 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 | 12,029 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 173 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,064 | 83.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 107 | 61.8 | Arab | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 47 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,866 | 100.0 | Dutch | 521 | 4.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,419 | 16.0 | English | 1,065 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 264 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 48 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,062 | 25.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,842 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 212 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,654 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,300 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,650 | 24.8 | Italian | 126 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 50.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,004 | 75.2 | Norwegian | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 92 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,711 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 838 | 49.0 | Russian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 83 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 105 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,291 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,889 | 61.0 | Swedish | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,386 | 38.8 | Swiss | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,886 | 16.7 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,500 | 22.1 | United States or American | 1,799 | 15.0 | |
| Same state | 1,731 | 15.3 | Welsh | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 769 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 16 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,344 | 11.2 | |
| 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)

