DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Decatur 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 | 28,240 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,686 | 100.0 | Native | 27,579 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 641 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 27,470 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 552 | 7.2 | State of residence | 20,495 | 72.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,684 | 47.9 | Different state | 6,975 | 24.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,790 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 109 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,019 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 661 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 463 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 127 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,633 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 534 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,971 | 11.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,375 | 19.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,914 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 661 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,465 | 19.7 | Europe | 51 | 7.7 | |
| Associate degree | 772 | 4.4 | Asia | 58 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,295 | 7.3 | Africa | 45 | 6.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 841 | 4.8 | Oceania | 8 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 486 | 73.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.7 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 26,042 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,488 | 100.0 | English only | 24,809 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 5,484 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 1,233 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,941 | 50.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 615 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 778 | 3.6 | Spanish | 1,007 | 3.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,939 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 480 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 1,693 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 169 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,346 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,297 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 28 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 28,240 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 813 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 22,540 | 79.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 473 | 58.2 | Arab | 61 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,164 | 100.0 | Dutch | 190 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,331 | 11.6 | English | 1,850 | 6.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 273 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 29 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 721 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,899 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 616 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,962 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,465 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,607 | 24.1 | Italian | 106 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 47.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,355 | 75.9 | Norwegian | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 55 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,562 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,841 | 51.7 | Russian | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 346 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 157 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 26,042 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 248 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,014 | 57.7 | Swedish | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,673 | 41.0 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 6,344 | 24.4 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 4,329 | 16.6 | United States or American | 5,016 | 17.8 | |
| Same state | 1,900 | 7.3 | Welsh | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,429 | 9.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 355 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 11,727 | 41.5 | |
| 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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