
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Emmons 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 | 4,331 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 923 | 100.0 | Native | 4,310 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 23 | 2.5 | Born in United States | 4,307 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 5.7 | State of residence | 3,740 | 86.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 513 | 55.6 | Different state | 567 | 13.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 274 | 29.7 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 60 | 6.5 | Foreign born | 21 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 16 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,125 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 787 | 25.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 279 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 936 | 30.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 578 | 18.5 | Europe | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Associate degree | 162 | 5.2 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 304 | 9.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 79 | 2.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.9 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,094 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,469 | 100.0 | English only | 3,428 | 83.7 | |
| Never married | 637 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 666 | 16.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,271 | 65.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 211 | 5.2 | |
| Separated | 33 | 1.0 | Spanish | 17 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 377 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 260 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 649 | 15.9 | |
| Divorced | 151 | 4.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 209 | 5.1 | |
| Female | 52 | 1.5 | 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 | 4,331 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 16 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,808 | 111.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 12 | 75.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 29 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,252 | 100.0 | Dutch | 327 | 7.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 405 | 12.5 | English | 158 | 3.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 48 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,676 | 61.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 906 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 38 | 4.2 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,079 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 161 | 3.7 | |
| With a disability | 384 | 18.5 | Italian | 11 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 61.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,695 | 81.5 | Norwegian | 257 | 5.9 | |
| Percent employed | 81.1 | (X) | Polish | 36 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,037 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 448 | 43.2 | Russian | 572 | 13.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 22 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 30 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,094 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,933 | 71.6 | Swedish | 39 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,149 | 28.1 | Swiss | 28 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 739 | 18.1 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 410 | 10.0 | United States or American | 245 | 5.7 | |
| Same state | 232 | 5.7 | Welsh | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 178 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 114 | 2.6 | |
| 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)

