
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oliver 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 | 2,065 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 549 | 100.0 | Native | 2,059 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 10 | 1.8 | Born in United States | 2,052 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 21 | 3.8 | State of residence | 1,806 | 87.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 280 | 51.0 | Different state | 246 | 11.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 199 | 36.2 | Born outside United States | 7 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 39 | 7.1 | Foreign born | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,402 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 161 | 11.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 121 | 8.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 495 | 35.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 315 | 22.5 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 142 | 10.1 | Asia | 4 | 66.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 146 | 10.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 22 | 1.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.9 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 33.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,963 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,644 | 100.0 | English only | 1,866 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 326 | 19.8 | Language other than English | 97 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,123 | 68.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 8 | 0.5 | Spanish | 14 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 106 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 89 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 81 | 4.1 | |
| Divorced | 81 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 27 | 1.6 | 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 | 2,065 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 23 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,508 | 121.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 18 | 78.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 28 | 1.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,495 | 100.0 | Dutch | 38 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 175 | 11.7 | English | 105 | 5.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 40 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,227 | 59.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 530 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 35 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,131 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 122 | 5.9 | |
| With a disability | 153 | 13.5 | Italian | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 65.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 978 | 86.5 | Norwegian | 341 | 16.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 33 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 302 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 106 | 35.1 | Russian | 153 | 7.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 13 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 11 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,963 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,510 | 76.9 | Swedish | 63 | 3.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 453 | 23.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 194 | 9.9 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 259 | 13.2 | United States or American | 114 | 5.5 | |
| Same state | 186 | 9.5 | Welsh | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 73 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 163 | 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
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