
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Caribou 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 | 7,304 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,190 | 100.0 | Native | 7,172 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 181 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 7,161 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 5.0 | State of residence | 4,405 | 60.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 982 | 44.8 | Different state | 2,756 | 37.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 703 | 32.1 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 214 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 132 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 59 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 37 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,391 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 95 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 162 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 427 | 9.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,500 | 34.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 132 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,283 | 29.2 | Europe | 35 | 26.5 | |
| Associate degree | 319 | 7.3 | Asia | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 545 | 12.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 155 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 93 | 70.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.6 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,756 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,474 | 100.0 | English only | 6,417 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 1,016 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 339 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,692 | 67.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 132 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 63 | 1.2 | Spanish | 230 | 3.4 | |
| Widowed | 309 | 5.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 262 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 102 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 394 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 198 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 7,304 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 98 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,878 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 52 | 53.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 697 | 9.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,992 | 100.0 | Dutch | 169 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 712 | 14.3 | English | 2,171 | 29.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 85 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 43 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 888 | 12.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,048 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 158 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,712 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 571 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 704 | 19.0 | Italian | 154 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,008 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 230 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.4 | (X) | Polish | 104 | 1.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 932 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 392 | 42.1 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 16 | 0.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 241 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,756 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,386 | 64.9 | Swedish | 309 | 4.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,333 | 34.5 | Swiss | 204 | 2.8 | |
| Same county | 1,255 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,078 | 16.0 | United States or American | 622 | 8.5 | |
| Same state | 441 | 6.5 | Welsh | 221 | 3.0 | |
| Different state | 637 | 9.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,123 | 15.4 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

