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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Benewah 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 9,171 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,139 100.0   Native 9,112 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 115 5.4       Born in United States 9,071 98.9
Kindergarten 148 6.9           State of residence 3,698 40.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,093 51.1           Different state 5,373 58.6
High school (grades 9-12) 627 29.3       Born outside United States 41 0.4
College or graduate school 156 7.3   Foreign born 59 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 32 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 6,051 100.0       Not a citizen 27 0.3
Less than 9th grade 282 4.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 938 15.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,491 41.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 59 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,269 21.0   Europe 35 59.3
Associate degree 379 6.3   Asia 4 6.8
Bachelor's degree 502 8.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 190 3.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 5 8.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.8 (X)   Northern America 15 25.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,572 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 7,174 100.0   English only 8,284 96.6
Never married 1,388 19.3   Language other than English 288 3.4
Now married, except separated 4,401 61.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 67 0.8
Separated 113 1.6   Spanish 147 1.7
Widowed 529 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 48 0.6
 Female 398 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 60 0.7
Divorced 743 10.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.1
 Female 283 3.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 13 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 9,171 100.0
           under 18 years 128 100.0     Total ancestries reported 9,398 102.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 83 64.8   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 42 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 86 0.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,712 100.0   Dutch 233 2.5
Civilian veterans 1,209 18.0   English 1,257 13.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 273 3.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 78 0.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,334 25.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,180 100.0   Greek 35 0.4
With a disability 127 5.8   Hungarian 20 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,002 100.0   Irish¹ 998 10.9
With a disability 1,064 21.3   Italian 210 2.3
 Percent employed 43.5 (X)   Lithuanian 4 0.0
No disability 3,938 78.7   Norwegian 434 4.7
 Percent employed 65.9 (X)   Polish 101 1.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,263 100.0   Portuguese 28 0.3
With a disability 583 46.2   Russian 90 1.0
        Scotch-Irish 195 2.1
        Scottish 200 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 8,572 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,250 61.2   Swedish 297 3.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,229 37.7   Swiss 98 1.1
 Same county 1,525 17.8   Ukrainian 2 0.0
 Different county 1,704 19.9   United States or American 658 7.2
  Same state 535 6.2   Welsh 73 0.8
  Different state 1,169 13.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 93 1.1   Other ancestries 1,652 18.0
 
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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