
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 | 1,577 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 367 | 100.0 | Native | 1,547 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 38 | 10.4 | Born in United States | 1,543 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 21 | 5.7 | State of residence | 698 | 44.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 168 | 45.8 | Different state | 845 | 53.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 114 | 31.1 | Born outside United States | 4 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 26 | 7.1 | Foreign born | 30 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,098 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 60 | 5.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 91 | 8.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 396 | 36.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 30 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 272 | 24.8 | Europe | 13 | 43.3 | |
| Associate degree | 61 | 5.6 | Asia | 2 | 6.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 143 | 13.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 75 | 6.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 50.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,490 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,269 | 100.0 | English only | 1,433 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 240 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 57 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 774 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 29 | 2.3 | Spanish | 45 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 85 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 67 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 12 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 141 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 70 | 5.5 | 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 | 1,577 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 0 | N/A | Total ancestries reported | 1,701 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | N/A | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,179 | 100.0 | Dutch | 54 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 194 | 16.5 | English | 237 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 58 | 3.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 320 | 20.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 350 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5 | 1.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 930 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 214 | 13.6 | |
| With a disability | 123 | 13.2 | Italian | 36 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 807 | 86.8 | Norwegian | 44 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 23 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 200 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 78 | 39.0 | Russian | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 30 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 52 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,490 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 859 | 57.7 | Swedish | 100 | 6.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 626 | 42.0 | Swiss | 11 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 271 | 18.2 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 355 | 23.8 | United States or American | 221 | 14.0 | |
| Same state | 172 | 11.5 | Welsh | 25 | 1.6 | |
| Different state | 183 | 12.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 231 | 14.6 | |
| 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)

