
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 7,039 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,891 | 100.0 | Native | 6,859 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 130 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 6,825 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 4.2 | State of residence | 5,576 | 79.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 930 | 49.2 | Different state | 1,249 | 17.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 559 | 29.6 | Born outside United States | 34 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 193 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 180 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 110 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 61 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,685 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 119 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 276 | 5.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 348 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,751 | 37.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 180 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,164 | 24.8 | Europe | 22 | 12.2 | |
| Associate degree | 389 | 8.3 | Asia | 16 | 8.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 515 | 11.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 242 | 5.2 | Oceania | 4 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 136 | 75.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,635 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,520 | 100.0 | English only | 6,211 | 93.6 | |
| Never married | 1,018 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 424 | 6.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,657 | 66.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 195 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 41 | 0.7 | Spanish | 230 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 485 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 133 | 2.0 | |
| Female | 384 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 181 | 2.7 | |
| Divorced | 319 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 154 | 2.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 7,039 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 85 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,532 | 107.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 52 | 61.2 | Arab | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 384 | 5.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 170 | 2.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,105 | 100.0 | Dutch | 138 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 764 | 15.0 | English | 582 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 156 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 34 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,303 | 46.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,755 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 108 | 6.2 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,590 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 610 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 551 | 15.3 | Italian | 57 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,039 | 84.7 | Norwegian | 152 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 84.9 | (X) | Polish | 125 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,183 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 463 | 39.1 | Russian | 109 | 1.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 87 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 76 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,635 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,336 | 65.4 | Swedish | 476 | 6.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,246 | 33.9 | Swiss | 50 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 968 | 14.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,278 | 19.3 | United States or American | 393 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 902 | 13.6 | Welsh | 51 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 376 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 53 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 524 | 7.4 | |
| 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)

