
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Irion 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 | 1,771 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 474 | 100.0 | Native | 1,709 | 96.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 28 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 1,694 | 95.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 20 | 4.2 | State of residence | 1,520 | 85.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 229 | 48.3 | Different state | 174 | 9.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 143 | 30.2 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 54 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 62 | 3.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 35 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,217 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 27 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 119 | 9.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 139 | 11.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 377 | 31.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 62 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 276 | 22.7 | Europe | 3 | 4.8 | |
| Associate degree | 44 | 3.6 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 208 | 17.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 54 | 4.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 59 | 95.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,677 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,397 | 100.0 | English only | 1,294 | 77.2 | |
| Never married | 199 | 14.2 | Language other than English | 383 | 22.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 942 | 67.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 6.8 | |
| Separated | 18 | 1.3 | Spanish | 377 | 22.5 | |
| Widowed | 93 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 6.8 | |
| Female | 72 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 145 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 67 | 4.8 | 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 | 1,771 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 53 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,650 | 93.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 37 | 69.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,299 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 189 | 14.5 | English | 218 | 12.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 31 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 289 | 16.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 416 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 25 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 982 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 170 | 9.6 | |
| With a disability | 192 | 19.6 | Italian | 10 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 70.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 790 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 279 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 120 | 43.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 24 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 51 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,677 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,022 | 60.9 | Swedish | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 653 | 38.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 170 | 10.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 483 | 28.8 | United States or American | 229 | 12.9 | |
| Same state | 470 | 28.0 | Welsh | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 13 | 0.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 570 | 32.2 | |
| 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)

