
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lemhi 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 | 7,806 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,763 | 100.0 | Native | 7,688 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 117 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 7,642 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 138 | 7.8 | State of residence | 3,473 | 44.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 915 | 51.9 | Different state | 4,169 | 53.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 527 | 29.9 | Born outside United States | 46 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 66 | 3.7 | Foreign born | 118 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 51 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 63 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,373 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 55 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 254 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 684 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,684 | 31.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 118 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,483 | 27.6 | Europe | 54 | 45.8 | |
| Associate degree | 308 | 5.7 | Asia | 16 | 13.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 660 | 12.3 | Africa | 2 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 300 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 19 | 16.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 22.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,407 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,225 | 100.0 | English only | 7,157 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 1,089 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 250 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,879 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 100 | 1.6 | Spanish | 159 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 463 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 372 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 72 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 694 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 328 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19 | 0.3 | |
| 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 | 7,806 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 110 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,225 | 105.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 80 | 72.7 | Arab | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 229 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,814 | 100.0 | Dutch | 180 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,129 | 19.4 | English | 1,527 | 19.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 290 | 3.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 62 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,631 | 20.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,818 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 138 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,266 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 731 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 886 | 20.8 | Italian | 227 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 45.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 38 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 3,380 | 79.2 | Norwegian | 325 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 71.7 | (X) | Polish | 76 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,306 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 21 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 588 | 45.0 | Russian | 49 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 238 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 232 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,407 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,439 | 59.9 | Swedish | 279 | 3.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,873 | 38.8 | Swiss | 54 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 1,386 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,487 | 20.1 | United States or American | 667 | 8.5 | |
| Same state | 476 | 6.4 | Welsh | 157 | 2.0 | |
| Different state | 1,011 | 13.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 95 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 1,109 | 14.2 | |
| 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
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