
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Phillips 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 | 4,480 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,133 | 100.0 | Native | 4,117 | 91.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 112 | 9.9 | Born in United States | 4,102 | 91.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 7.7 | State of residence | 2,520 | 56.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 538 | 47.5 | Different state | 1,582 | 35.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 280 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 116 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 363 | 8.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 234 | 5.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 65 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,999 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 298 | 6.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 289 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 264 | 8.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 964 | 32.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 363 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 702 | 23.4 | Europe | 19 | 5.2 | |
| Associate degree | 184 | 6.1 | Asia | 11 | 3.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 418 | 13.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 178 | 5.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 333 | 91.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (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 | 4,170 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,479 | 100.0 | English only | 3,714 | 89.1 | |
| Never married | 582 | 16.7 | Language other than English | 456 | 10.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,244 | 64.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 282 | 6.8 | |
| Separated | 45 | 1.3 | Spanish | 420 | 10.1 | |
| Widowed | 357 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 270 | 6.5 | |
| Female | 289 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 29 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 251 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 151 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,480 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 19 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,717 | 105.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6 | 31.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 38 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,268 | 100.0 | Dutch | 76 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 416 | 12.7 | English | 583 | 13.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 77 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,730 | 38.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,032 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 45 | 4.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,272 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 459 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 398 | 17.5 | Italian | 84 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 59.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,874 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 59 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.9 | (X) | Polish | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 783 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 255 | 32.6 | Russian | 44 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 84 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 83 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,170 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,280 | 54.7 | Swedish | 232 | 5.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,785 | 42.8 | Swiss | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 854 | 20.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 931 | 22.3 | United States or American | 298 | 6.7 | |
| Same state | 499 | 12.0 | Welsh | 54 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 432 | 10.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 105 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 767 | 17.1 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

