
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brule 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 | 5,364 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,475 | 100.0 | Native | 5,340 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 82 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 5,330 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 6.4 | State of residence | 4,338 | 80.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 810 | 54.9 | Different state | 992 | 18.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 411 | 27.9 | Born outside United States | 10 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 78 | 5.3 | Foreign born | 24 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 24 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,371 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 373 | 11.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 263 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,067 | 31.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 24 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 703 | 20.9 | Europe | 11 | 45.8 | |
| Associate degree | 269 | 8.0 | Asia | 13 | 54.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 547 | 16.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 149 | 4.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,047 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,062 | 100.0 | English only | 4,675 | 92.6 | |
| Never married | 973 | 24.0 | Language other than English | 372 | 7.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,446 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 190 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 57 | 1.4 | Spanish | 45 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 300 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 249 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 267 | 5.3 | |
| Divorced | 286 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 174 | 3.4 | |
| Female | 147 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 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 | 5,364 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 24 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,241 | 116.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 18 | 75.0 | Arab | 26 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 598 | 11.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 110 | 2.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,715 | 100.0 | Dutch | 193 | 3.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 498 | 13.4 | English | 323 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 158 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,194 | 40.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,522 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 98 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,606 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 688 | 12.8 | |
| With a disability | 420 | 16.1 | Italian | 60 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 48.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 2,186 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 555 | 10.3 | |
| Percent employed | 85.4 | (X) | Polish | 75 | 1.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 905 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 410 | 45.3 | Russian | 26 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 58 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 42 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,047 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,182 | 63.0 | Swedish | 216 | 4.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,861 | 36.9 | Swiss | 38 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 768 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 1,093 | 21.7 | United States or American | 286 | 5.3 | |
| Same state | 634 | 12.6 | Welsh | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 459 | 9.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 522 | 9.7 | |
| 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)

