
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Faulk 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 | 2,640 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 606 | 100.0 | Native | 2,587 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 40 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 2,577 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 5.4 | State of residence | 2,202 | 83.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 343 | 56.6 | Different state | 375 | 14.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 163 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 10 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 27 | 4.5 | Foreign born | 53 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 51 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,803 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 343 | 19.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 131 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 615 | 34.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 53 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 361 | 20.0 | Europe | 6 | 11.3 | |
| Associate degree | 116 | 6.4 | Asia | 2 | 3.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 196 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 41 | 2.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.7 | (X) | Northern America | 45 | 84.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,504 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,089 | 100.0 | English only | 2,095 | 83.7 | |
| Never married | 427 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 409 | 16.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,337 | 64.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 8.3 | |
| Separated | 10 | 0.5 | Spanish | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Widowed | 203 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 170 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 398 | 15.9 | |
| Divorced | 112 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 8.3 | |
| Female | 45 | 2.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 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 | 2,640 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 20 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,625 | 99.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 15 | 75.0 | Arab | 18 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 34 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 54 | 2.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,939 | 100.0 | Dutch | 74 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 299 | 15.4 | English | 156 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 49 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,436 | 54.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 653 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 47 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,241 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 170 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 194 | 15.6 | Italian | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 55.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,047 | 84.4 | Norwegian | 179 | 6.8 | |
| Percent employed | 79.4 | (X) | Polish | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 566 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 190 | 33.6 | Russian | 63 | 2.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 15 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 15 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,504 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,851 | 73.9 | Swedish | 80 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 643 | 25.7 | Swiss | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 313 | 12.5 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 330 | 13.2 | United States or American | 127 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 266 | 10.6 | Welsh | 17 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 64 | 2.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 96 | 3.6 | |
| 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)

