
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Charles Mix 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 | 9,350 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,522 | 100.0 | Native | 9,277 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 184 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 9,249 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 205 | 8.1 | State of residence | 7,891 | 84.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,407 | 55.8 | Different state | 1,358 | 14.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 566 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 28 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 160 | 6.3 | Foreign born | 73 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 32 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 41 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,676 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 759 | 13.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 679 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,964 | 34.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 73 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,025 | 18.1 | Europe | 22 | 30.1 | |
| Associate degree | 451 | 7.9 | Asia | 4 | 5.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 613 | 10.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 185 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 37 | 50.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.7 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 13.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,546 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,861 | 100.0 | English only | 7,609 | 89.0 | |
| Never married | 1,848 | 26.9 | Language other than English | 937 | 11.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,756 | 54.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 286 | 3.3 | |
| Separated | 75 | 1.1 | Spanish | 69 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 669 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 557 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 485 | 5.7 | |
| Divorced | 513 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 176 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 246 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 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 | 9,350 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 242 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,869 | 116.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 176 | 72.7 | Arab | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,253 | 13.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 216 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,338 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,082 | 11.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 891 | 14.1 | English | 382 | 4.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 166 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,604 | 27.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,512 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 137 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,394 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 558 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 710 | 16.2 | Italian | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 58.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,684 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 660 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.9 | (X) | Polish | 64 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,465 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 574 | 39.2 | Russian | 161 | 1.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 52 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 57 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,546 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,728 | 67.0 | Swedish | 239 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,784 | 32.6 | Swiss | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,641 | 19.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,143 | 13.4 | United States or American | 141 | 1.5 | |
| Same state | 611 | 7.1 | Welsh | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 532 | 6.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 34 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,139 | 33.6 | |
| 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)

