
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Turner 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 | 8,849 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,149 | 100.0 | Native | 8,809 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 86 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 8,793 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 4.9 | State of residence | 7,048 | 79.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,165 | 54.2 | Different state | 1,745 | 19.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 589 | 27.4 | Born outside United States | 16 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 203 | 9.4 | Foreign born | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,019 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 543 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 470 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,242 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 40 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,321 | 21.9 | Europe | 22 | 55.0 | |
| Associate degree | 422 | 7.0 | Asia | 8 | 20.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 783 | 13.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 238 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.2 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 25.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,359 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,004 | 100.0 | English only | 8,049 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 1,377 | 19.7 | Language other than English | 310 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,509 | 64.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 55 | 0.8 | Spanish | 56 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 666 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 561 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 244 | 2.9 | |
| Divorced | 397 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 188 | 2.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,849 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 72 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,213 | 115.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 34 | 47.2 | Arab | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 133 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,090 | 12.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,565 | 100.0 | Dutch | 572 | 6.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 933 | 14.2 | English | 409 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 131 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,294 | 48.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,043 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 113 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,459 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 589 | 6.7 | |
| With a disability | 646 | 14.5 | Italian | 67 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 70.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,813 | 85.5 | Norwegian | 1,542 | 17.4 | |
| Percent employed | 88.4 | (X) | Polish | 115 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,639 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 566 | 34.5 | Russian | 65 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 68 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 66 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,359 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,473 | 65.5 | Swedish | 316 | 3.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,853 | 34.1 | Swiss | 52 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,230 | 14.7 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,623 | 19.4 | United States or American | 298 | 3.4 | |
| Same state | 1,100 | 13.2 | Welsh | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 523 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 33 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 309 | 3.5 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

