
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Johnson 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 | 4,488 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,028 | 100.0 | Native | 4,294 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 55 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 4,281 | 95.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 4.3 | State of residence | 3,674 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 526 | 51.2 | Different state | 607 | 13.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 308 | 30.0 | Born outside United States | 13 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 95 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 194 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 93 | 2.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 79 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,143 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 115 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 327 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 288 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,365 | 43.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 194 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 521 | 16.6 | Europe | 13 | 6.7 | |
| Associate degree | 179 | 5.7 | Asia | 90 | 46.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 343 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 120 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 89 | 45.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.4 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,259 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,636 | 100.0 | English only | 3,971 | 93.2 | |
| Never married | 696 | 19.1 | Language other than English | 288 | 6.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,267 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 166 | 3.9 | |
| Separated | 21 | 0.6 | Spanish | 161 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 404 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 346 | 9.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 31 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 248 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 121 | 3.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 92 | 2.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 1.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,488 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 37 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,941 | 110.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 21 | 56.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 110 | 2.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 48 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,399 | 100.0 | Dutch | 135 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 499 | 14.7 | English | 403 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 108 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,484 | 55.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 984 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 81 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,273 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 474 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 315 | 13.9 | Italian | 39 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,958 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 85.2 | (X) | Polish | 161 | 3.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 933 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 309 | 33.1 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 76 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 56 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,259 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,813 | 66.0 | Swedish | 107 | 2.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,399 | 32.8 | Swiss | 66 | 1.5 | |
| Same county | 563 | 13.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 836 | 19.6 | United States or American | 171 | 3.8 | |
| Same state | 618 | 14.5 | Welsh | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 218 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 47 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 447 | 10.0 | |
| 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)

