
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Arthur 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 | 444 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 116 | 100.0 | Native | 441 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 0 | 0.0 | Born in United States | 438 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 7 | 6.0 | State of residence | 349 | 78.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 60 | 51.7 | Different state | 89 | 20.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 38 | 32.8 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 11 | 9.5 | Foreign born | 3 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 306 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 16 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 16 | 5.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 98 | 32.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 95 | 31.0 | Europe | 1 | 33.3 | |
| Associate degree | 33 | 10.8 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 35 | 11.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 66.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 429 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 358 | 100.0 | English only | 420 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 72 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 9 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 225 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 4 | 1.1 | Spanish | 7 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 27 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 22 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 2 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 30 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 14 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 444 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 637 | 143.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4 | 66.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 3.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 37 | 8.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 336 | 100.0 | Dutch | 20 | 4.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 49 | 14.6 | English | 102 | 23.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 262 | 59.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 110 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2 | 1.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 242 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 75 | 16.9 | |
| With a disability | 30 | 12.4 | Italian | 14 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 63.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 212 | 87.6 | Norwegian | 7 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 88.2 | (X) | Polish | 3 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 77 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 21 | 27.3 | Russian | 2 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 17 | 3.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 7 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 429 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 278 | 64.8 | Swedish | 30 | 6.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 151 | 35.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 36 | 8.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 115 | 26.8 | United States or American | 9 | 2.0 | |
| Same state | 78 | 18.2 | Welsh | 3 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 37 | 8.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 20 | 4.5 | |
| 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)

