DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nance 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 | 4,038 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,026 | 100.0 | Native | 4,006 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 78 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 4,000 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 6.0 | State of residence | 3,438 | 85.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 511 | 49.8 | Different state | 562 | 13.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 292 | 28.5 | Born outside United States | 6 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 83 | 8.1 | Foreign born | 32 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 20 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,651 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 242 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 272 | 10.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,028 | 38.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 32 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 596 | 22.5 | Europe | 19 | 59.4 | |
| Associate degree | 211 | 8.0 | Asia | 4 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 214 | 8.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 88 | 3.3 | Oceania | 3 | 9.4 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 12.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.6 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 6.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,792 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,163 | 100.0 | English only | 3,622 | 95.5 | |
| Never married | 668 | 21.1 | Language other than English | 170 | 4.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,034 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 23 | 0.7 | Spanish | 75 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 245 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 201 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 80 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 193 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 100 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,038 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 20 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,768 | 118.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 11 | 55.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 133 | 3.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 167 | 4.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,925 | 100.0 | Dutch | 90 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 440 | 15.0 | English | 374 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 71 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,561 | 38.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 976 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 46 | 4.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,995 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 477 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 316 | 15.8 | Italian | 48 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 58.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,679 | 84.2 | Norwegian | 42 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 86.9 | (X) | Polish | 806 | 20.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 749 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 331 | 44.2 | Russian | 15 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 44 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 54 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,792 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,534 | 66.8 | Swedish | 409 | 10.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,251 | 33.0 | Swiss | 45 | 1.1 | |
| Same county | 491 | 12.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 760 | 20.0 | United States or American | 193 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 562 | 14.8 | Welsh | 26 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 198 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 188 | 4.7 | |
| 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
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