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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bremer 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 23,325 100.0
      enrolled in school 6,970 100.0   Native 23,036 98.8
Nursery school, preschool 472 6.8       Born in United States 22,937 98.3
Kindergarten 292 4.2           State of residence 19,317 82.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,639 37.9           Different state 3,620 15.5
High school (grades 9-12) 1,503 21.6       Born outside United States 99 0.4
College or graduate school 2,064 29.6   Foreign born 289 1.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 104 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 191 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 14,835 100.0       Not a citizen 98 0.4
Less than 9th grade 944 6.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 884 6.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,585 37.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 289 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,903 19.6   Europe 108 37.4
Associate degree 1,331 9.0   Asia 122 42.2
Bachelor's degree 2,249 15.2   Africa 2 0.7
Graduate or professional degree 939 6.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 39 13.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 87.7 (X)   Northern America 18 6.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 22,029 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 18,820 100.0   English only 21,199 96.2
Never married 4,390 23.3   Language other than English 830 3.8
Now married, except separated 11,617 61.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 244 1.1
Separated 107 0.6   Spanish 469 2.1
Widowed 1,611 8.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 153 0.7
 Female 1,348 7.2   Other Indo-European languages 308 1.4
Divorced 1,095 5.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 66 0.3
 Female 582 3.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 48 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 23,325 100.0
           under 18 years 128 100.0     Total ancestries reported 24,835 106.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 54 42.2   Arab 33 0.1
        Czech¹ 248 1.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 495 2.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 17,697 100.0   Dutch 565 2.4
Civilian veterans 2,310 13.1   English 1,879 8.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 409 1.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 107 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 12,887 55.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 5,704 100.0   Greek 25 0.1
With a disability 353 6.2   Hungarian 8 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 12,507 100.0   Irish¹ 2,427 10.4
With a disability 1,488 11.9   Italian 157 0.7
 Percent employed 66.6 (X)   Lithuanian 9 0.0
No disability 11,019 88.1   Norwegian 1,571 6.7
 Percent employed 85.5 (X)   Polish 255 1.1
     Population 65 years and over 3,456 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,192 34.5   Russian 24 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 198 0.8
        Scottish 285 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 22,029 100.0   Subsaharan African 6 0.0
Same house in 1995 13,658 62.0   Swedish 481 2.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 8,319 37.8   Swiss 107 0.5
 Same county 3,499 15.9   Ukrainian 1 0.0
 Different county 4,820 21.9   United States or American 1,528 6.6
  Same state 3,592 16.3   Welsh 107 0.5
  Different state 1,228 5.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 52 0.2   Other ancestries 1,023 4.4
 
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.
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