DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cheyenne 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 | 9,830 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,414 | 100.0 | Native | 9,739 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 98 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 9,724 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 119 | 4.9 | State of residence | 6,551 | 66.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,185 | 49.1 | Different state | 3,173 | 32.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 756 | 31.3 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 256 | 10.6 | Foreign born | 91 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 38 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 46 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,543 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 364 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 503 | 7.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,308 | 35.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 91 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,738 | 26.6 | Europe | 28 | 30.8 | |
| Associate degree | 531 | 8.1 | Asia | 22 | 24.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 881 | 13.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 218 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 39 | 42.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,195 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,781 | 100.0 | English only | 8,872 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 1,614 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 323 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,594 | 59.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 102 | 1.3 | Spanish | 237 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 605 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 500 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 56 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 866 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 464 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,830 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 56 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,617 | 108.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 35 | 62.5 | Arab | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 310 | 3.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 250 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,229 | 100.0 | Dutch | 274 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 941 | 13.0 | English | 1,018 | 10.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 318 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 71 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,322 | 44.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,273 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 206 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,186 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,186 | 12.1 | |
| With a disability | 833 | 16.1 | Italian | 165 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 61.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,353 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 189 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 87.5 | (X) | Polish | 111 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,611 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 619 | 38.4 | Russian | 53 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 153 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 112 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,195 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,456 | 59.3 | Swedish | 453 | 4.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,668 | 39.9 | Swiss | 36 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,695 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,973 | 21.5 | United States or American | 566 | 5.8 | |
| Same state | 854 | 9.3 | Welsh | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,119 | 12.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 71 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 945 | 9.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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