DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tripp 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 | 6,430 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,609 | 100.0 | Native | 6,406 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 123 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 6,403 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 6.7 | State of residence | 5,199 | 80.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 832 | 51.7 | Different state | 1,204 | 18.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 481 | 29.9 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 65 | 4.0 | Foreign born | 24 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 16 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,218 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 411 | 9.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 423 | 10.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,640 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 24 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 954 | 22.6 | Europe | 15 | 62.5 | |
| Associate degree | 221 | 5.2 | Asia | 3 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 463 | 11.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 106 | 2.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.2 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 25.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,032 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,025 | 100.0 | English only | 5,802 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 1,143 | 22.7 | Language other than English | 230 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,012 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 73 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 49 | 1.0 | Spanish | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 474 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 406 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 53 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 347 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 194 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,430 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 101 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,223 | 112.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 55 | 54.5 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 607 | 9.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 190 | 3.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,629 | 100.0 | Dutch | 130 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 654 | 14.1 | English | 509 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 118 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,651 | 41.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,628 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 113 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,137 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 756 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 545 | 17.4 | Italian | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,592 | 82.6 | Norwegian | 362 | 5.6 | |
| Percent employed | 84.5 | (X) | Polish | 29 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,171 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 480 | 41.0 | Russian | 60 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 58 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 32 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,032 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,203 | 69.7 | Swedish | 235 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,821 | 30.2 | Swiss | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,252 | 20.8 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 569 | 9.4 | United States or American | 409 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 363 | 6.0 | Welsh | 52 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 206 | 3.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 947 | 14.7 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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