
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Keith 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 | 8,875 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,090 | 100.0 | Native | 8,722 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 131 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 8,680 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 4.7 | State of residence | 6,032 | 68.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,077 | 51.5 | Different state | 2,648 | 29.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 639 | 30.6 | Born outside United States | 42 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 145 | 6.9 | Foreign born | 153 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 69 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 71 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,103 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 82 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 300 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 520 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,249 | 36.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 153 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,627 | 26.7 | Europe | 34 | 22.2 | |
| Associate degree | 381 | 6.2 | Asia | 31 | 20.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 763 | 12.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 263 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 73 | 47.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.6 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 9.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,363 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,081 | 100.0 | English only | 7,950 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 1,236 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 413 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,455 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 142 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 87 | 1.2 | Spanish | 264 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 612 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 69 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 468 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 98 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 691 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 368 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,875 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 70 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,813 | 110.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 44 | 62.9 | Arab | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 135 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 327 | 3.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,628 | 100.0 | Dutch | 279 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,006 | 15.2 | English | 1,010 | 11.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 365 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 89 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,328 | 37.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,010 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 156 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,701 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,153 | 13.0 | |
| With a disability | 773 | 16.4 | Italian | 102 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 63.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,928 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 144 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 84.5 | (X) | Polish | 274 | 3.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,566 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 36 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 600 | 38.3 | Russian | 48 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 190 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 167 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,363 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,669 | 55.8 | Swedish | 547 | 6.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,644 | 43.6 | Swiss | 35 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,774 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,870 | 22.4 | United States or American | 572 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 897 | 10.7 | Welsh | 35 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 973 | 11.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 50 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 921 | 10.4 | |
| 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)

