
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 13,537 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,399 | 100.0 | Native | 13,189 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 149 | 2.3 | Born in United States | 13,067 | 96.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 137 | 2.1 | State of residence | 8,274 | 61.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,159 | 18.1 | Different state | 4,793 | 35.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 557 | 8.7 | Born outside United States | 122 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,397 | 68.7 | Foreign born | 348 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 235 | 1.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 88 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,719 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 260 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 390 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 314 | 4.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,552 | 23.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 348 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,526 | 22.7 | Europe | 63 | 18.1 | |
| Associate degree | 340 | 5.1 | Asia | 180 | 51.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,427 | 21.2 | Africa | 21 | 6.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,170 | 17.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 71 | 20.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.5 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 3.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 38.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,806 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,370 | 100.0 | English only | 12,154 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 4,807 | 42.3 | Language other than English | 652 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,431 | 47.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 242 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 62 | 0.5 | Spanish | 163 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 511 | 4.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 447 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 239 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 559 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 353 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 166 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 103 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,537 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 34 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,435 | 114.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 11 | 32.4 | Arab | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 372 | 2.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 571 | 4.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,930 | 100.0 | Dutch | 710 | 5.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,055 | 9.7 | English | 936 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 488 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 104 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,631 | 34.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,904 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 240 | 6.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,458 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,796 | 13.3 | |
| With a disability | 840 | 11.3 | Italian | 144 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,618 | 88.7 | Norwegian | 2,254 | 16.7 | |
| Percent employed | 76.0 | (X) | Polish | 172 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,199 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 435 | 36.3 | Russian | 102 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 201 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 163 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,806 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,049 | 39.4 | Swedish | 657 | 4.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,443 | 58.1 | Swiss | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,947 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,496 | 42.9 | United States or American | 410 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 3,305 | 25.8 | Welsh | 67 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,191 | 17.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 314 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 1,526 | 11.3 | |
| 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)

