
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 14,254 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,083 | 100.0 | Native | 14,127 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 159 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 14,064 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 219 | 7.1 | State of residence | 12,446 | 87.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,599 | 51.9 | Different state | 1,618 | 11.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 749 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 63 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 357 | 11.6 | Foreign born | 127 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 56 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 70 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,767 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 57 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,197 | 12.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,125 | 21.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,690 | 37.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 127 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,521 | 15.6 | Europe | 30 | 23.6 | |
| Associate degree | 471 | 4.8 | Asia | 15 | 11.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 486 | 5.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 277 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 72 | 56.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.0 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 7.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,393 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,449 | 100.0 | English only | 13,021 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 2,099 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 372 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,997 | 61.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 220 | 1.9 | Spanish | 279 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 921 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 741 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 84 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,212 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 697 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,254 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 367 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,112 | 63.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 208 | 56.7 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,854 | 100.0 | Dutch | 102 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,401 | 12.9 | English | 1,178 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 100 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 447 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,025 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 227 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,928 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 803 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,937 | 24.4 | Italian | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 43.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,991 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.5 | (X) | Polish | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,182 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,143 | 52.4 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 186 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 161 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,393 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 77 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,120 | 68.1 | Swedish | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,202 | 31.4 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,370 | 17.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,832 | 13.7 | United States or American | 3,354 | 23.5 | |
| Same state | 1,388 | 10.4 | Welsh | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 444 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 71 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 2,539 | 17.8 | |
| 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
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