
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sioux 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 | 1,475 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 360 | 100.0 | Native | 1,456 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 18 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 1,451 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 7.5 | State of residence | 964 | 65.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 176 | 48.9 | Different state | 487 | 33.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 103 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 5 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 36 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 19 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 11 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,009 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 43 | 4.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 94 | 9.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 322 | 31.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 19 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 269 | 26.7 | Europe | 8 | 42.1 | |
| Associate degree | 64 | 6.3 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 168 | 16.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 49 | 4.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 11 | 57.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,396 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,185 | 100.0 | English only | 1,364 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 217 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 32 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 828 | 69.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 7 | 0.6 | Spanish | 22 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 65 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 46 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 10 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 68 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 41 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 1,475 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 13 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,596 | 108.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 13 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 43 | 2.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 27 | 1.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,113 | 100.0 | Dutch | 54 | 3.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 144 | 12.9 | English | 198 | 13.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 45 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 534 | 36.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 333 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 24 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 822 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 249 | 16.9 | |
| With a disability | 121 | 14.7 | Italian | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 69.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 701 | 85.3 | Norwegian | 33 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 7 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 241 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 80 | 33.2 | Russian | 20 | 1.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 27 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 22 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,396 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 845 | 60.5 | Swedish | 52 | 3.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 551 | 39.5 | Swiss | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 162 | 11.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 389 | 27.9 | United States or American | 121 | 8.2 | |
| Same state | 247 | 17.7 | Welsh | 16 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 142 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 117 | 7.9 | |
| 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)

