
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hinsdale 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 | 790 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 138 | 100.0 | Native | 774 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 11 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 768 | 97.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 13 | 9.4 | State of residence | 213 | 27.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 66 | 47.8 | Different state | 555 | 70.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 32 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 6 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 16 | 11.6 | Foreign born | 16 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 593 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 7 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8 | 1.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 33 | 5.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 123 | 20.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 16 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 181 | 30.5 | Europe | 12 | 75.0 | |
| Associate degree | 41 | 6.9 | Asia | 2 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 150 | 25.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 57 | 9.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 12.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 742 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 660 | 100.0 | English only | 706 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 115 | 17.4 | Language other than English | 36 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 433 | 65.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 6 | 0.9 | Spanish | 16 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 10 | 1.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 8 | 1.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 16 | 2.2 | |
| Divorced | 96 | 14.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 44 | 6.7 | 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 | 790 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 834 | 105.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 1.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 634 | 100.0 | Dutch | 30 | 3.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 78 | 12.3 | English | 110 | 13.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 21 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 182 | 23.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 124 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 1.3 | |
| With a disability | 5 | 4.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 527 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 114 | 14.4 | |
| With a disability | 59 | 11.2 | Italian | 38 | 4.8 | |
| Percent employed | 72.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 468 | 88.8 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 78.0 | (X) | Polish | 31 | 3.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 91 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 17 | 18.7 | Russian | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 70 | 8.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 22 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 742 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 371 | 50.0 | Swedish | 15 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 364 | 49.1 | Swiss | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 126 | 17.0 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 238 | 32.1 | United States or American | 46 | 5.8 | |
| Same state | 67 | 9.0 | Welsh | 18 | 2.3 | |
| Different state | 171 | 23.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 93 | 11.8 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

