DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lincoln 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 | 8,348 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,953 | 100.0 | Native | 8,292 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 114 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 8,214 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 143 | 7.3 | State of residence | 6,283 | 75.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 978 | 50.1 | Different state | 1,931 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 527 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 78 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 191 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 56 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 31 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,701 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 550 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,102 | 19.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,071 | 36.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 56 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,191 | 20.9 | Europe | 43 | 76.8 | |
| Associate degree | 213 | 3.7 | Asia | 8 | 14.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 356 | 6.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 218 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.0 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 8.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,929 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,706 | 100.0 | English only | 7,776 | 98.1 | |
| Never married | 1,573 | 23.5 | Language other than English | 153 | 1.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,765 | 56.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 160 | 2.4 | Spanish | 63 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 555 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 478 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 85 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 653 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 281 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 8,348 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 268 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,518 | 78.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 126 | 47.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,267 | 100.0 | Dutch | 94 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 919 | 14.7 | English | 593 | 7.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 126 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 358 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,883 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 129 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,688 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 594 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,038 | 22.1 | Italian | 78 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 39.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,650 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 73.2 | (X) | Polish | 83 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,242 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 597 | 48.1 | Russian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 130 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 89 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,929 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 31 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,343 | 67.4 | Swedish | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,554 | 32.2 | Swiss | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,293 | 16.3 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,261 | 15.9 | United States or American | 1,527 | 18.3 | |
| Same state | 838 | 10.6 | Welsh | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 423 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 2,737 | 32.8 | |
| 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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