
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Denali Borough
[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 | 1,893 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 456 | 100.0 | Native | 1,839 | 97.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 24 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 1,818 | 96.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 11 | 2.4 | State of residence | 503 | 26.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 236 | 51.8 | Different state | 1,315 | 69.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 97 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 21 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 88 | 19.3 | Foreign born | 54 | 2.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 22 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 17 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,316 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 37 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 43 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 66 | 5.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 400 | 30.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 54 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 423 | 32.1 | Europe | 21 | 38.9 | |
| Associate degree | 85 | 6.5 | Asia | 22 | 40.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 229 | 17.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 70 | 5.3 | Oceania | 4 | 7.4 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.7 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 13.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,795 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,533 | 100.0 | English only | 1,656 | 92.3 | |
| Never married | 439 | 28.6 | Language other than English | 139 | 7.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 852 | 55.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 17 | 1.1 | Spanish | 48 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 29 | 1.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 15 | 1.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 38 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 196 | 12.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 75 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 1.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,893 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 14 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,271 | 120.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7 | 50.0 | Arab | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 15 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,324 | 100.0 | Dutch | 49 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 271 | 20.5 | English | 200 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 108 | 5.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 2.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 427 | 22.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 388 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 20 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,234 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 246 | 13.0 | |
| With a disability | 153 | 12.4 | Italian | 97 | 5.1 | |
| Percent employed | 49.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,081 | 87.6 | Norwegian | 57 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 3.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 59 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 29 | 49.2 | Russian | 21 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 61 | 3.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 71 | 3.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,795 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 979 | 54.5 | Swedish | 50 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 789 | 44.0 | Swiss | 25 | 1.3 | |
| Same county | 214 | 11.9 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 575 | 32.0 | United States or American | 67 | 3.5 | |
| Same state | 213 | 11.9 | Welsh | 34 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 362 | 20.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 27 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 587 | 31.0 | |
| 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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