
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Haakon 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 | 2,196 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 517 | 100.0 | Native | 2,175 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 24 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 2,172 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 4.3 | State of residence | 1,772 | 80.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 242 | 46.8 | Different state | 400 | 18.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 197 | 38.1 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 32 | 6.2 | Foreign born | 21 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,477 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 14 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 83 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 120 | 8.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 600 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 357 | 24.2 | Europe | 8 | 38.1 | |
| Associate degree | 90 | 6.1 | Asia | 5 | 23.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 176 | 11.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 51 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.3 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 38.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,075 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,786 | 100.0 | English only | 2,009 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 354 | 19.8 | Language other than English | 66 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,174 | 65.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 13 | 0.7 | Spanish | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 160 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 131 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 36 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 85 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 40 | 2.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,196 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 25 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,413 | 109.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 9 | 36.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 70 | 3.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,641 | 100.0 | Dutch | 75 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 203 | 12.4 | English | 202 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 46 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 20 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 721 | 32.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 524 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 26 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 18 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,159 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 327 | 14.9 | |
| With a disability | 146 | 12.6 | Italian | 18 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 63.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,013 | 87.4 | Norwegian | 420 | 19.1 | |
| Percent employed | 87.4 | (X) | Polish | 34 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 344 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 135 | 39.2 | Russian | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 44 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 5 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,075 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,390 | 67.0 | Swedish | 60 | 2.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 685 | 33.0 | Swiss | 17 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 354 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 331 | 16.0 | United States or American | 102 | 4.6 | |
| Same state | 230 | 11.1 | Welsh | 27 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 101 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 164 | 7.5 | |
| 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
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