
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Custer 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 | 4,342 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,018 | 100.0 | Native | 4,243 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 40 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 4,238 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 5.1 | State of residence | 2,246 | 51.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 541 | 53.1 | Different state | 1,992 | 45.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 316 | 31.0 | Born outside United States | 5 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 69 | 6.8 | Foreign born | 99 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 49 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 31 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,012 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 68 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 156 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 312 | 10.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,129 | 37.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 99 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 739 | 24.5 | Europe | 13 | 13.1 | |
| Associate degree | 152 | 5.0 | Asia | 2 | 2.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 388 | 12.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 136 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 64 | 64.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.5 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 20.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,111 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,449 | 100.0 | English only | 3,933 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 575 | 16.7 | Language other than English | 178 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,193 | 63.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 82 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 21 | 0.6 | Spanish | 129 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 236 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 171 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 44 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 424 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 185 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,342 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 28 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,522 | 104.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 18 | 64.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 13 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 153 | 3.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,225 | 100.0 | Dutch | 79 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 593 | 18.4 | English | 850 | 19.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 146 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 51 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 772 | 17.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 996 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 64 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,483 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 572 | 13.2 | |
| With a disability | 440 | 17.7 | Italian | 196 | 4.5 | |
| Percent employed | 51.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 2,043 | 82.3 | Norwegian | 153 | 3.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.0 | (X) | Polish | 54 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 626 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 261 | 41.7 | Russian | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 145 | 3.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 76 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,111 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,430 | 59.1 | Swedish | 196 | 4.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,675 | 40.7 | Swiss | 28 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 709 | 17.2 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 966 | 23.5 | United States or American | 312 | 7.2 | |
| Same state | 455 | 11.1 | Welsh | 95 | 2.2 | |
| Different state | 511 | 12.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 590 | 13.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

