
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Price 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 | 15,822 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,685 | 100.0 | Native | 15,724 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 186 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 15,659 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 179 | 4.9 | State of residence | 12,434 | 78.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,891 | 51.3 | Different state | 3,225 | 20.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,041 | 28.2 | Born outside United States | 65 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 388 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 98 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 24 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 66 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,122 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 795 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,164 | 10.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,831 | 43.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 98 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,106 | 18.9 | Europe | 57 | 58.2 | |
| Associate degree | 783 | 7.0 | Asia | 15 | 15.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,074 | 9.7 | Africa | 2 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 369 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 14.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.4 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 10.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,075 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,817 | 100.0 | English only | 14,539 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 2,604 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 536 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,703 | 60.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 150 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 164 | 1.3 | Spanish | 184 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,202 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 969 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 264 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,144 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 520 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,822 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 150 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,077 | 120.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 68 | 45.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,304 | 8.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 140 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,034 | 100.0 | Dutch | 307 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,011 | 16.7 | English | 855 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 565 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 288 | 1.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,336 | 46.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,501 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 314 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 75 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,551 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,421 | 9.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,465 | 17.1 | Italian | 310 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 59.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 56 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 7,086 | 82.9 | Norwegian | 1,261 | 8.0 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 1,046 | 6.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,769 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,164 | 42.0 | Russian | 96 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 174 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 104 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 303 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,075 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,940 | 65.9 | Swedish | 1,231 | 7.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,063 | 33.6 | Swiss | 131 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 2,713 | 18.0 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,350 | 15.6 | United States or American | 604 | 3.8 | |
| Same state | 1,684 | 11.2 | Welsh | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 666 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 72 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,388 | 8.8 | |
| 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)

