
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Custer 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 | 3,503 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 687 | 100.0 | Native | 3,445 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 45 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 3,410 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 7.9 | State of residence | 1,238 | 35.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 351 | 51.1 | Different state | 2,172 | 62.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 174 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 35 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 63 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 58 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 38 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,548 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 20 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 45 | 1.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 202 | 7.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 715 | 28.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 58 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 764 | 30.0 | Europe | 38 | 65.5 | |
| Associate degree | 142 | 5.6 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 423 | 16.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 257 | 10.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.3 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 34.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 26.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,317 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,861 | 100.0 | English only | 3,196 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 419 | 14.6 | Language other than English | 121 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,002 | 70.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 31 | 1.1 | Spanish | 85 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 143 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 117 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 29 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 266 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 121 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 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 | 3,503 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 42 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,683 | 105.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 27 | 64.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 29 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 23 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,721 | 100.0 | Dutch | 89 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 594 | 21.8 | English | 606 | 17.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 156 | 4.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 884 | 25.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 674 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 31 | 4.6 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,102 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 500 | 14.3 | |
| With a disability | 435 | 20.7 | Italian | 102 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 31.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 1,667 | 79.3 | Norwegian | 55 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 73.5 | (X) | Polish | 73 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 525 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 159 | 30.3 | Russian | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 78 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 102 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,317 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,506 | 45.4 | Swedish | 132 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,790 | 54.0 | Swiss | 44 | 1.3 | |
| Same county | 469 | 14.1 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,321 | 39.8 | United States or American | 316 | 9.0 | |
| Same state | 609 | 18.4 | Welsh | 36 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 712 | 21.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 21 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 394 | 11.2 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

