
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ozark 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 | 9,542 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,902 | 100.0 | Native | 9,446 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 122 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 9,413 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 4.7 | State of residence | 4,522 | 47.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 925 | 48.6 | Different state | 4,891 | 51.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 569 | 29.9 | Born outside United States | 33 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 196 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 96 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 28 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 59 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,795 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 744 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,089 | 16.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,926 | 43.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 96 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,249 | 18.4 | Europe | 55 | 57.3 | |
| Associate degree | 221 | 3.3 | Asia | 11 | 11.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 337 | 5.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 229 | 3.4 | Oceania | 2 | 2.1 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 15.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.0 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 13.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,047 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,884 | 100.0 | English only | 8,853 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 1,177 | 14.9 | Language other than English | 194 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,152 | 65.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 48 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 132 | 1.7 | Spanish | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 660 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 521 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 97 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 763 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 353 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,542 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 141 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,232 | 75.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 53 | 37.6 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 37 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 34 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,454 | 100.0 | Dutch | 176 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,391 | 18.7 | English | 871 | 9.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 226 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,228 | 12.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,874 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 124 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 34 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,310 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,010 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,437 | 27.1 | Italian | 100 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 39.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 3,873 | 72.9 | Norwegian | 71 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 73 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,787 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 844 | 47.2 | Russian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 203 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 123 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,047 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,622 | 62.1 | Swedish | 64 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,357 | 37.1 | Swiss | 38 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,425 | 15.8 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,932 | 21.4 | United States or American | 1,601 | 16.8 | |
| Same state | 772 | 8.5 | Welsh | 47 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,160 | 12.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 68 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 1,216 | 12.7 | |
| 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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