
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sutton 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 | 4,077 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,085 | 100.0 | Native | 3,548 | 87.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 85 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 3,527 | 86.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 6.5 | State of residence | 3,224 | 79.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 564 | 52.0 | Different state | 303 | 7.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 302 | 27.8 | Born outside United States | 21 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 63 | 5.8 | Foreign born | 529 | 13.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 160 | 3.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 194 | 4.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,632 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 335 | 8.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 525 | 19.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 413 | 15.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 784 | 29.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 529 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 479 | 18.2 | Europe | 11 | 2.1 | |
| Associate degree | 88 | 3.3 | Asia | 17 | 3.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 265 | 10.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 78 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 501 | 94.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,778 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,106 | 100.0 | English only | 1,954 | 51.7 | |
| Never married | 557 | 17.9 | Language other than English | 1,824 | 48.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,067 | 66.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 701 | 18.6 | |
| Separated | 57 | 1.8 | Spanish | 1,768 | 46.8 | |
| Widowed | 206 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 679 | 18.0 | |
| Female | 163 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 26 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 219 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 138 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.4 | |
| 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 | 4,077 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 103 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,512 | 86.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 58 | 56.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,906 | 100.0 | Dutch | 46 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 298 | 10.3 | English | 251 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 81 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 281 | 6.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 994 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 61 | 6.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,200 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 194 | 4.8 | |
| With a disability | 451 | 20.5 | Italian | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 67.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 1,749 | 79.5 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 553 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 261 | 47.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 74 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 15 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,778 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,415 | 63.9 | Swedish | 23 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,296 | 34.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 800 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 496 | 13.1 | United States or American | 296 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 439 | 11.6 | Welsh | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 57 | 1.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 67 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 2,208 | 54.2 | |
| 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)

