
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sargent 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 | 4,366 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 988 | 100.0 | Native | 4,346 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 58 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 4,342 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 5.5 | State of residence | 2,484 | 56.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 554 | 56.1 | Different state | 1,858 | 42.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 266 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 4 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 56 | 5.7 | Foreign born | 20 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 11 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 13 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,989 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 256 | 8.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 308 | 10.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,051 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 20 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 722 | 24.2 | Europe | 11 | 55.0 | |
| Associate degree | 273 | 9.1 | Asia | 2 | 10.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 324 | 10.8 | Africa | 3 | 15.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 55 | 1.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.1 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 20.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,113 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,421 | 100.0 | English only | 4,016 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 650 | 19.0 | Language other than English | 97 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,252 | 65.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 23 | 0.7 | Spanish | 45 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 266 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 214 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 43 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 230 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 74 | 2.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 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 | 4,366 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 13 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,711 | 130.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6 | 46.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 159 | 3.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 102 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,215 | 100.0 | Dutch | 53 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 417 | 13.0 | English | 269 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 95 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,933 | 44.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 979 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 67 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,383 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 282 | 6.5 | |
| With a disability | 320 | 13.4 | Italian | 27 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,063 | 86.6 | Norwegian | 1,593 | 36.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.7 | (X) | Polish | 209 | 4.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 718 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 262 | 36.5 | Russian | 113 | 2.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 24 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 34 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,113 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,719 | 66.1 | Swedish | 426 | 9.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,383 | 33.6 | Swiss | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 679 | 16.5 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 704 | 17.1 | United States or American | 106 | 2.4 | |
| Same state | 413 | 10.0 | Welsh | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 291 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 223 | 5.1 | |
| 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)

