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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clark 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 4,143 100.0
      enrolled in school 974 100.0   Native 4,109 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 41 4.2       Born in United States 4,082 98.5
Kindergarten 67 6.9           State of residence 3,462 83.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 518 53.2           Different state 620 15.0
High school (grades 9-12) 295 30.3       Born outside United States 27 0.7
College or graduate school 53 5.4   Foreign born 34 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 15 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 18 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 2,781 100.0       Not a citizen 16 0.4
Less than 9th grade 428 15.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 224 8.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,107 39.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 34 100.0
Some college, no degree 529 19.0   Europe 18 52.9
Associate degree 177 6.4   Asia 6 17.6
Bachelor's degree 258 9.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 58 2.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 3 8.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.6 (X)   Northern America 7 20.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,912 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,283 100.0   English only 3,515 89.9
Never married 702 21.4   Language other than English 397 10.1
Now married, except separated 2,090 63.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 190 4.9
Separated 20 0.6   Spanish 31 0.8
Widowed 316 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.6
 Female 261 8.0   Other Indo-European languages 350 8.9
Divorced 155 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 162 4.1
 Female 66 2.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 6 0.2
                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 4,143 100.0
           under 18 years 9 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,680 113.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 4 44.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 24 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 73 1.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,027 100.0   Dutch 70 1.7
Civilian veterans 366 12.1   English 312 7.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 134 3.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 26 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,839 44.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,015 100.0   Greek 3 0.1
With a disability 89 8.8   Hungarian 4 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,969 100.0   Irish¹ 364 8.8
With a disability 311 15.8   Italian 29 0.7
 Percent employed 64.6 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,658 84.2   Norwegian 1,059 25.6
 Percent employed 82.1 (X)   Polish 61 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 895 100.0   Portuguese 4 0.1
With a disability 341 38.1   Russian 29 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 35 0.8
        Scottish 23 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,912 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,695 68.9   Swedish 203 4.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,163 29.7   Swiss 12 0.3
 Same county 574 14.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 589 15.1   United States or American 124 3.0
  Same state 468 12.0   Welsh 10 0.2
  Different state 121 3.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 54 1.4   Other ancestries 242 5.8
 
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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