DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jackson 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 | 18,418 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,023 | 100.0 | Native | 18,331 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 278 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 18,296 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 286 | 7.1 | State of residence | 15,186 | 82.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,868 | 46.4 | Different state | 3,110 | 16.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,046 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 35 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 545 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 87 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 28 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,204 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 69 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,778 | 14.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,366 | 19.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,679 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,748 | 14.3 | Europe | 61 | 70.1 | |
| Associate degree | 375 | 3.1 | Asia | 21 | 24.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 840 | 6.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 418 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3 | 3.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,369 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,078 | 100.0 | English only | 16,999 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 2,949 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 370 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,604 | 57.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 212 | 1.4 | Spanish | 249 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,432 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,202 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 109 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,881 | 12.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,131 | 7.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 18,418 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 403 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,318 | 61.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 275 | 68.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,317 | 100.0 | Dutch | 176 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,563 | 10.9 | English | 1,053 | 5.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 162 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 973 | 5.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,573 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 342 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,430 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,339 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,793 | 29.6 | Italian | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 45.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,637 | 70.4 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.3 | (X) | Polish | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,726 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,472 | 54.0 | Russian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 234 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 182 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,369 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,395 | 65.6 | Swedish | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,927 | 34.1 | Swiss | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,845 | 22.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,082 | 12.0 | United States or American | 3,649 | 19.8 | |
| Same state | 1,449 | 8.3 | Welsh | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 633 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 47 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,339 | 18.1 | |
| 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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