
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
[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 | 6,174 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,970 | 100.0 | Native | 5,564 | 90.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 110 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 5,480 | 88.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 4.4 | State of residence | 1,992 | 32.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 960 | 48.7 | Different state | 3,488 | 56.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 528 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 84 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 286 | 14.5 | Foreign born | 610 | 9.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 373 | 6.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 124 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,693 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 486 | 7.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 185 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 302 | 8.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,296 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 610 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 960 | 26.0 | Europe | 491 | 80.5 | |
| Associate degree | 277 | 7.5 | Asia | 47 | 7.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 477 | 12.9 | Africa | 9 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 196 | 5.3 | Oceania | 5 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 21 | 3.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.8 | (X) | Northern America | 37 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,739 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,540 | 100.0 | English only | 4,800 | 83.6 | |
| Never married | 1,120 | 24.7 | Language other than English | 939 | 16.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,689 | 59.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 432 | 7.5 | |
| Separated | 50 | 1.1 | Spanish | 141 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 154 | 3.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 115 | 2.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 483 | 8.4 | |
| Divorced | 527 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 315 | 5.5 | |
| Female | 246 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 28 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,174 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 64 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,476 | 104.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 36 | 56.3 | Arab | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 38 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 34 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,963 | 100.0 | Dutch | 120 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 815 | 20.6 | English | 524 | 8.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 180 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 47 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,230 | 19.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,782 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 60 | 3.4 | Hungarian | 22 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,396 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 627 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 523 | 15.4 | Italian | 145 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 36.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,873 | 84.6 | Norwegian | 174 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 55.4 | (X) | Polish | 115 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 375 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 149 | 39.7 | Russian | 162 | 2.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 118 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 150 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 26 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,739 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 38 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,206 | 55.9 | Swedish | 144 | 2.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,348 | 40.9 | Swiss | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 875 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 219 | 3.5 | |
| Different county | 1,473 | 25.7 | United States or American | 541 | 8.8 | |
| Same state | 498 | 8.7 | Welsh | 49 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 975 | 17.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 185 | 3.2 | Other ancestries | 1,715 | 27.8 | |
| 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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