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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Walsh 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 12,389 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,811 100.0   Native 12,155 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 179 6.4       Born in United States 12,097 97.6
Kindergarten 126 4.5           State of residence 10,143 81.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,451 51.6           Different state 1,954 15.8
High school (grades 9-12) 861 30.6       Born outside United States 58 0.5
College or graduate school 194 6.9   Foreign born 234 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 33 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 155 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 8,530 100.0       Not a citizen 79 0.6
Less than 9th grade 1,207 14.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 788 9.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,736 32.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 234 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,062 24.2   Europe 47 20.1
Associate degree 604 7.1   Asia 4 1.7
Bachelor's degree 931 10.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 202 2.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 110 47.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.6 (X)   Northern America 73 31.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 11,686 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 9,952 100.0   English only 10,480 89.7
Never married 2,212 22.2   Language other than English 1,206 10.3
Now married, except separated 5,937 59.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 299 2.6
Separated 84 0.8   Spanish 536 4.6
Widowed 989 9.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 148 1.3
 Female 807 8.1   Other Indo-European languages 656 5.6
Divorced 730 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 151 1.3
 Female 335 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 4 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 12,389 100.0
           under 18 years 91 100.0     Total ancestries reported 15,839 127.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 65 71.4   Arab 12 0.1
        Czech¹ 1,495 12.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 91 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,318 100.0   Dutch 172 1.4
Civilian veterans 1,343 14.4   English 352 2.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 762 6.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 144 1.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,630 21.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,741 100.0   Greek 7 0.1
With a disability 286 10.4   Hungarian 13 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,507 100.0   Irish¹ 948 7.7
With a disability 1,219 18.7   Italian 45 0.4
 Percent employed 57.3 (X)   Lithuanian 4 0.0
No disability 5,288 81.3   Norwegian 5,032 40.6
 Percent employed 83.2 (X)   Polish 1,378 11.1
     Population 65 years and over 2,226 100.0   Portuguese 3 0.0
With a disability 838 37.6   Russian 64 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 199 1.6
        Scottish 165 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 11,686 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 8,165 69.9   Swedish 535 4.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,469 29.7   Swiss 3 0.0
 Same county 2,075 17.8   Ukrainian 16 0.1
 Different county 1,394 11.9   United States or American 190 1.5
  Same state 796 6.8   Welsh 13 0.1
  Different state 598 5.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 52 0.4   Other ancestries 1,566 12.6
 
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.
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