DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brooks 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 | 16,450 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,275 | 100.0 | Native | 16,170 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 248 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 16,098 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 226 | 5.3 | State of residence | 12,652 | 76.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,179 | 51.0 | Different state | 3,446 | 20.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,104 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 72 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 518 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 280 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 150 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 93 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,455 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 187 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,254 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,149 | 20.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,875 | 37.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 280 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,577 | 15.1 | Europe | 65 | 23.2 | |
| Associate degree | 418 | 4.0 | Asia | 35 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 728 | 7.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 454 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 180 | 64.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,400 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,783 | 100.0 | English only | 14,872 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 3,413 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 528 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,354 | 49.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 252 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 341 | 2.7 | Spanish | 418 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,387 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 216 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 1,143 | 8.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,288 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 708 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,450 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 551 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,649 | 76.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 289 | 52.5 | Arab | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,922 | 100.0 | Dutch | 128 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,508 | 12.6 | English | 1,051 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 160 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 650 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,192 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 234 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,621 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 729 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,407 | 27.9 | Italian | 76 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 55.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,214 | 72.1 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 46 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,258 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,154 | 51.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 236 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 158 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,400 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 281 | 1.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,298 | 60.4 | Swedish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,975 | 38.8 | Swiss | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,691 | 17.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,284 | 21.3 | United States or American | 2,920 | 17.8 | |
| Same state | 2,022 | 13.1 | Welsh | 64 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,262 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 127 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 6,025 | 36.6 | |
| 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
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