
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jerauld 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 | 2,295 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 473 | 100.0 | Native | 2,287 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 22 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 2,287 | 99.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 18 | 3.8 | State of residence | 1,974 | 86.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 219 | 46.3 | Different state | 313 | 13.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 165 | 34.9 | Born outside United States | 0 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 49 | 10.4 | Foreign born | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,661 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 221 | 13.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 118 | 7.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 674 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 356 | 21.4 | Europe | 4 | 50.0 | |
| Associate degree | 88 | 5.3 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 149 | 9.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 55 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.6 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 50.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,213 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,932 | 100.0 | English only | 2,036 | 92.0 | |
| Never married | 399 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 177 | 8.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,204 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 78 | 3.5 | |
| Separated | 17 | 0.9 | Spanish | 12 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 213 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 173 | 9.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 163 | 7.4 | |
| Divorced | 99 | 5.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 68 | 3.1 | |
| Female | 46 | 2.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 2,295 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 13 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,379 | 103.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 13 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 58 | 2.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 97 | 4.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,805 | 100.0 | Dutch | 79 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 258 | 14.3 | English | 176 | 7.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 65 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,051 | 45.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 469 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 21 | 4.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,159 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 173 | 7.5 | |
| With a disability | 143 | 12.3 | Italian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,016 | 87.7 | Norwegian | 257 | 11.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 545 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 229 | 42.0 | Russian | 13 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 28 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 17 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,213 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,660 | 75.0 | Swedish | 94 | 4.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 553 | 25.0 | Swiss | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 315 | 14.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 238 | 10.8 | United States or American | 143 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 160 | 7.2 | Welsh | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 78 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 95 | 4.1 | |
| 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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