
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Webster 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 | 4,061 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 953 | 100.0 | Native | 4,007 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 76 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 3,989 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 6.0 | State of residence | 3,076 | 75.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 476 | 49.9 | Different state | 913 | 22.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 262 | 27.5 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 82 | 8.6 | Foreign born | 54 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 13 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 29 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,910 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 264 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 214 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,150 | 39.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 54 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 694 | 23.8 | Europe | 17 | 31.5 | |
| Associate degree | 188 | 6.5 | Asia | 27 | 50.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 276 | 9.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 124 | 4.3 | Oceania | 4 | 7.4 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.6 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 11.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,854 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,282 | 100.0 | English only | 3,743 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 536 | 16.3 | Language other than English | 111 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,105 | 64.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 38 | 1.2 | Spanish | 60 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 404 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 333 | 10.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 31 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 199 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 104 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 20 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,061 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 19 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,302 | 105.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2 | 10.5 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 200 | 4.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 106 | 2.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,100 | 100.0 | Dutch | 73 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 483 | 15.6 | English | 484 | 11.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 113 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,853 | 45.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 872 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 64 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,973 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 503 | 12.4 | |
| With a disability | 338 | 17.1 | Italian | 26 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 55.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,635 | 82.9 | Norwegian | 64 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 83.9 | (X) | Polish | 28 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 886 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 334 | 37.7 | Russian | 32 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 88 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 55 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,854 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,551 | 66.2 | Swedish | 152 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,288 | 33.4 | Swiss | 34 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 609 | 15.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 679 | 17.6 | United States or American | 259 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 448 | 11.6 | Welsh | 33 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 231 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 15 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 180 | 4.4 | |
| 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)

