DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Miller 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 | 6,383 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,707 | 100.0 | Native | 6,360 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 184 | 10.8 | Born in United States | 6,339 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 3.2 | State of residence | 5,320 | 83.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 853 | 50.0 | Different state | 1,019 | 16.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 420 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 21 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 195 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 23 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 11 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,281 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 583 | 13.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 743 | 17.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,536 | 35.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 23 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 750 | 17.5 | Europe | 7 | 30.4 | |
| Associate degree | 187 | 4.4 | Asia | 16 | 69.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 318 | 7.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 164 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.0 | (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 | 6,005 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,014 | 100.0 | English only | 5,915 | 98.5 | |
| Never married | 1,059 | 21.1 | Language other than English | 90 | 1.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,728 | 54.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 198 | 3.9 | Spanish | 40 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 474 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 373 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 24 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 555 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 303 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,383 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 169 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,599 | 72.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 110 | 65.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,706 | 100.0 | Dutch | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 524 | 11.1 | English | 382 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15 | 0.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 121 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,529 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 109 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,358 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 346 | 5.4 | |
| With a disability | 933 | 27.8 | Italian | 37 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 58.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,425 | 72.2 | Norwegian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 82.0 | (X) | Polish | 26 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 998 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 559 | 56.0 | Russian | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 64 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 94 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,005 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,061 | 67.6 | Swedish | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,932 | 32.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 975 | 16.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 957 | 15.9 | United States or American | 1,610 | 25.2 | |
| Same state | 615 | 10.2 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 342 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,826 | 28.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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