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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 140,814 100.0
      enrolled in school 40,121 100.0   Native 134,458 95.5
Nursery school, preschool 2,541 6.3       Born in United States 131,185 93.2
Kindergarten 2,447 6.1           State of residence 56,532 40.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 18,906 47.1           Different state 74,653 53.0
High school (grades 9-12) 9,335 23.3       Born outside United States 3,273 2.3
College or graduate school 6,892 17.2   Foreign born 6,356 4.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,815 1.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 3,472 2.5
  Population 25 years and over 90,382 100.0       Not a citizen 2,884 2.0
Less than 9th grade 2,900 3.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 9,397 10.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 28,640 31.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 6,356 100.0
Some college, no degree 23,578 26.1   Europe 1,417 22.3
Associate degree 7,708 8.5   Asia 2,402 37.8
Bachelor's degree 12,073 13.4   Africa 111 1.7
Graduate or professional degree 6,086 6.7   Oceania 37 0.6
        Latin America 1,952 30.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.4 (X)   Northern America 437 6.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 131,720 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 108,511 100.0   English only 121,540 92.3
Never married 21,072 19.4   Language other than English 10,180 7.7
Now married, except separated 68,836 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,734 2.1
Separated 1,890 1.7   Spanish 5,467 4.2
Widowed 5,645 5.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,399 1.1
 Female 4,564 4.2   Other Indo-European languages 2,276 1.7
Divorced 11,068 10.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 502 0.4
 Female 6,402 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2,229 1.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 776 0.6
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 140,814 100.0
           under 18 years 3,189 100.0     Total ancestries reported 138,632 98.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,727 54.2   Arab 286 0.2
        Czech¹ 405 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 520 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 99,057 100.0   Dutch 2,361 1.7
Civilian veterans 22,285 22.5   English 17,365 12.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 5,199 3.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,195 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 20,008 14.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 35,528 100.0   Greek 415 0.3
With a disability 2,994 8.4   Hungarian 590 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 79,589 100.0   Irish¹ 17,900 12.7
With a disability 15,341 19.3   Italian 6,804 4.8
 Percent employed 62.2 (X)   Lithuanian 189 0.1
No disability 64,248 80.7   Norwegian 1,454 1.0
 Percent employed 77.9 (X)   Polish 3,347 2.4
     Population 65 years and over 13,088 100.0   Portuguese 486 0.3
With a disability 5,772 44.1   Russian 456 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 3,354 2.4
        Scottish 3,208 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 210 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 131,720 100.0   Subsaharan African 706 0.5
Same house in 1995 65,642 49.8   Swedish 1,260 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 63,122 47.9   Swiss 269 0.2
 Same county 20,859 15.8   Ukrainian 265 0.2
 Different county 42,263 32.1   United States or American 18,457 13.1
  Same state 21,348 16.2   Welsh 1,047 0.7
  Different state 20,915 15.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 705 0.5
Elsewhere in 1995 2,956 2.2   Other ancestries 30,171 21.4
 
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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