
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Boyd 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 | 2,438 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 568 | 100.0 | Native | 2,428 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 26 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 2,424 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 5.6 | State of residence | 1,792 | 73.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 277 | 48.8 | Different state | 632 | 25.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 200 | 35.2 | Born outside United States | 4 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 33 | 5.8 | Foreign born | 10 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,698 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 138 | 8.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 150 | 8.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 729 | 42.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 10 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 348 | 20.5 | Europe | 4 | 40.0 | |
| Associate degree | 116 | 6.8 | Asia | 6 | 60.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 172 | 10.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 45 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,318 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,977 | 100.0 | English only | 2,242 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 386 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 76 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,260 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 5 | 0.3 | Spanish | 33 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 233 | 11.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 198 | 10.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 34 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 93 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 43 | 2.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,438 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 7 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,615 | 107.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 297 | 12.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 70 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,833 | 100.0 | Dutch | 52 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 288 | 15.7 | English | 193 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 37 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,121 | 46.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 556 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 38 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,173 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 262 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 156 | 13.3 | Italian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 57.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,017 | 86.7 | Norwegian | 37 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 86.8 | (X) | Polish | 50 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 543 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 228 | 42.0 | Russian | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 12 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 14 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,318 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,739 | 75.0 | Swedish | 182 | 7.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 576 | 24.8 | Swiss | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 331 | 14.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 245 | 10.6 | United States or American | 191 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 181 | 7.8 | Welsh | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 64 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 73 | 3.0 | |
| 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)

