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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lincoln 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 14,492 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,933 100.0   Native 14,387 99.3
Nursery school, preschool 229 7.8       Born in United States 14,376 99.2
Kindergarten 121 4.1           State of residence 10,758 74.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,486 50.7           Different state 3,618 25.0
High school (grades 9-12) 790 26.9       Born outside United States 11 0.1
College or graduate school 307 10.5   Foreign born 105 0.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 53 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 24 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 9,533 100.0       Not a citizen 81 0.6
Less than 9th grade 1,198 12.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,139 22.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,600 37.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 105 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,549 16.2   Europe 30 28.6
Associate degree 318 3.3   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 544 5.7   Africa 2 1.9
Graduate or professional degree 185 1.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 73 69.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.0 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 13,684 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 11,872 100.0   English only 13,424 98.1
Never married 2,542 21.4   Language other than English 260 1.9
Now married, except separated 7,134 60.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 52 0.4
Separated 214 1.8   Spanish 164 1.2
Widowed 938 7.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 42 0.3
 Female 726 6.1   Other Indo-European languages 81 0.6
Divorced 1,044 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.1
 Female 504 4.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 11 0.1
                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 14,492 100.0
           under 18 years 333 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,800 60.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 200 60.1   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 10 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 22 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 11,301 100.0   Dutch 62 0.4
Civilian veterans 1,401 12.4   English 447 3.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 128 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 7 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 385 2.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,872 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 296 10.3   Hungarian 4 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,053 100.0   Irish¹ 741 5.1
With a disability 1,751 28.9   Italian 98 0.7
 Percent employed 50.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 4,302 71.1   Norwegian 19 0.1
 Percent employed 75.6 (X)   Polish 6 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 1,502 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 828 55.1   Russian 11 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 142 1.0
        Scottish 94 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 13,684 100.0   Subsaharan African 111 0.8
Same house in 1995 7,441 54.4   Swedish 14 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 6,228 45.5   Swiss 4 0.0
 Same county 1,958 14.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 4,270 31.2   United States or American 2,745 18.9
  Same state 3,113 22.7   Welsh 12 0.1
  Different state 1,157 8.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 15 0.1   Other ancestries 3,736 25.8
 
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.
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