DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jasper 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 | 11,426 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,876 | 100.0 | Native | 11,183 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 267 | 9.3 | Born in United States | 11,118 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 223 | 7.8 | State of residence | 8,806 | 77.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,451 | 50.5 | Different state | 2,312 | 20.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 699 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 65 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 236 | 8.2 | Foreign born | 243 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 101 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 114 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,531 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 129 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 686 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,593 | 21.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,799 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 243 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,382 | 18.4 | Europe | 36 | 14.8 | |
| Associate degree | 202 | 2.7 | Asia | 75 | 30.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 547 | 7.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 322 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 132 | 54.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,645 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,868 | 100.0 | English only | 10,385 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 1,976 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 260 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,997 | 56.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 246 | 2.8 | Spanish | 150 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 598 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 96 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 538 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,051 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 516 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,426 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 320 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,699 | 76.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 122 | 38.1 | Arab | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,303 | 100.0 | Dutch | 80 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,099 | 13.2 | English | 921 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 199 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 592 | 5.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,690 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 228 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,569 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 939 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,564 | 23.8 | Italian | 83 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 5,005 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 74 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 75.4 | (X) | Polish | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,303 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 563 | 43.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 114 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 221 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,645 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 56 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,000 | 56.4 | Swedish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,618 | 43.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,710 | 16.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,908 | 27.3 | United States or American | 2,019 | 17.7 | |
| Same state | 2,539 | 23.9 | Welsh | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 369 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 113 | 1.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 27 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,118 | 27.3 | |
| 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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