
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Osage 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 | 44,437 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,443 | 100.0 | Native | 43,994 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 849 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 43,787 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 632 | 5.5 | State of residence | 31,649 | 71.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,713 | 49.9 | Different state | 12,138 | 27.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,967 | 25.9 | Born outside United States | 207 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,282 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 443 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 226 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 231 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,417 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 212 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,762 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,059 | 13.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,700 | 36.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 443 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,864 | 23.3 | Europe | 61 | 13.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,736 | 5.9 | Asia | 89 | 20.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,971 | 10.1 | Africa | 16 | 3.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,325 | 4.5 | Oceania | 22 | 5.0 | |
| Latin America | 237 | 53.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.2 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 4.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,777 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 34,946 | 100.0 | English only | 40,342 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 6,817 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 1,435 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,155 | 60.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 452 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 584 | 1.7 | Spanish | 835 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,216 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 282 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,799 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 289 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 4,174 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,996 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,437 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,026 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 38,529 | 86.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 680 | 66.3 | Arab | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 120 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 85 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 32,748 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,028 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,188 | 15.8 | English | 2,994 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 903 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 174 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,847 | 10.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,600 | 100.0 | Greek | 40 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 870 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,040 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,589 | 10.3 | |
| With a disability | 5,518 | 23.0 | Italian | 350 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 53.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 18,522 | 77.0 | Norwegian | 215 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 277 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,582 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,658 | 47.6 | Russian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 592 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 507 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,777 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 130 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,536 | 61.1 | Swedish | 303 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,018 | 38.3 | Swiss | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,735 | 13.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,283 | 24.6 | United States or American | 5,083 | 11.4 | |
| Same state | 7,793 | 18.7 | Welsh | 161 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,490 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 185 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 223 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 15,823 | 35.6 | |
| 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)

