
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Johnson 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 | 48,258 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 17,035 | 100.0 | Native | 46,800 | 97.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 775 | 4.5 | Born in United States | 46,056 | 95.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 676 | 4.0 | State of residence | 28,042 | 58.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,343 | 31.4 | Different state | 18,014 | 37.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,554 | 15.0 | Born outside United States | 744 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 7,687 | 45.1 | Foreign born | 1,458 | 3.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 886 | 1.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 465 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 26,558 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 993 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,184 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,543 | 9.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,632 | 32.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,457 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,660 | 25.1 | Europe | 178 | 12.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,372 | 5.2 | Asia | 636 | 43.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,462 | 13.0 | Africa | 46 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,705 | 10.2 | Oceania | 9 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 512 | 35.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.0 | (X) | Northern America | 76 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,928 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 38,271 | 100.0 | English only | 42,637 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 11,661 | 30.5 | Language other than English | 2,291 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,993 | 54.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 942 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 413 | 1.1 | Spanish | 980 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,766 | 4.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 438 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,454 | 3.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 658 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,438 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,836 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 564 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 324 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 48,258 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 470 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 45,473 | 94.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 192 | 40.9 | Arab | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 138 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 234 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,594 | 100.0 | Dutch | 891 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,619 | 16.7 | English | 5,387 | 11.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,458 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 291 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,303 | 23.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,957 | 100.0 | Greek | 52 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 980 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,318 | 13.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,729 | 15.0 | Italian | 1,090 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 55.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 21,071 | 85.0 | Norwegian | 669 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 477 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,328 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 91 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,693 | 39.1 | Russian | 123 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 848 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 956 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,928 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 189 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,487 | 41.1 | Swedish | 660 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 25,285 | 56.3 | Swiss | 150 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 8,731 | 19.4 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 16,554 | 36.8 | United States or American | 4,994 | 10.3 | |
| Same state | 9,267 | 20.6 | Welsh | 258 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 7,287 | 16.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,156 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 8,710 | 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

