
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pope 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 | 4,413 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 959 | 100.0 | Native | 4,384 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 42 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 4,373 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 5.8 | State of residence | 2,877 | 65.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 415 | 43.3 | Different state | 1,496 | 33.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 260 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 186 | 19.4 | Foreign born | 29 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,989 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 312 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 412 | 13.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 988 | 33.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 29 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 765 | 25.6 | Europe | 3 | 10.3 | |
| Associate degree | 198 | 6.6 | Asia | 2 | 6.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 178 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 136 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 22 | 75.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 6.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,191 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,672 | 100.0 | English only | 4,078 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 751 | 20.5 | Language other than English | 113 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,120 | 57.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 61 | 1.7 | Spanish | 72 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 345 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 276 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 41 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 395 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 180 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 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 | 4,413 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 57 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,628 | 82.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 34 | 59.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,462 | 100.0 | Dutch | 133 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 587 | 17.0 | English | 432 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 83 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 693 | 15.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 970 | 100.0 | Greek | 14 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 84 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,439 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 539 | 12.2 | |
| With a disability | 583 | 23.9 | Italian | 73 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 48.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 1,856 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 22 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 727 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 324 | 44.6 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 129 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 33 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,191 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,470 | 58.9 | Swedish | 55 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,705 | 40.7 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 603 | 14.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,102 | 26.3 | United States or American | 687 | 15.6 | |
| Same state | 772 | 18.4 | Welsh | 34 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 330 | 7.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 16 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 564 | 12.8 | |
| 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)

