DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dawson 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 | 15,999 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,395 | 100.0 | Native | 15,770 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 233 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 15,674 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 183 | 5.4 | State of residence | 10,403 | 65.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,965 | 57.9 | Different state | 5,271 | 32.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 656 | 19.3 | Born outside United States | 96 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 358 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 229 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 80 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 96 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,752 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 133 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 649 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,558 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,565 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 229 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,452 | 22.8 | Europe | 122 | 53.3 | |
| Associate degree | 585 | 5.4 | Asia | 17 | 7.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,285 | 12.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 658 | 6.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 63 | 27.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.5 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 11.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,860 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,551 | 100.0 | English only | 14,367 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 2,021 | 16.1 | Language other than English | 493 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,360 | 66.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 159 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 259 | 2.1 | Spanish | 284 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 601 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 126 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 488 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 185 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,310 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 702 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 15,999 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 328 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,961 | 81.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 104 | 31.7 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 27 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 65 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,975 | 100.0 | Dutch | 192 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,597 | 13.3 | English | 1,612 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 330 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,618 | 10.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,426 | 100.0 | Greek | 26 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 427 | 12.5 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,869 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,739 | 10.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,143 | 21.7 | Italian | 319 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 65.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,726 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 133 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 77.8 | (X) | Polish | 152 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,488 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 48 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 458 | 30.8 | Russian | 69 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 291 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 384 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,860 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,440 | 50.1 | Swedish | 172 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,312 | 49.2 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,650 | 11.1 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,662 | 38.1 | United States or American | 3,884 | 24.3 | |
| Same state | 4,264 | 28.7 | Welsh | 49 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,398 | 9.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 108 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,743 | 10.9 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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