
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Keokuk 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 | 11,400 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,751 | 100.0 | Native | 11,355 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 146 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 11,348 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 181 | 6.6 | State of residence | 9,977 | 87.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,391 | 50.6 | Different state | 1,371 | 12.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 735 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 7 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 298 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 25 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,667 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 588 | 7.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 640 | 8.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,548 | 46.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 45 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,459 | 19.0 | Europe | 9 | 20.0 | |
| Associate degree | 544 | 7.1 | Asia | 16 | 35.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 672 | 8.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 216 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 40.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,728 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,032 | 100.0 | English only | 10,573 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 1,681 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 155 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,604 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 108 | 1.2 | Spanish | 98 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 937 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 810 | 9.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 49 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 702 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 327 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,400 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 110 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,409 | 91.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 69 | 62.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 121 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 38 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,455 | 100.0 | Dutch | 479 | 4.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,112 | 13.2 | English | 1,112 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 288 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,962 | 34.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,648 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 177 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,742 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,290 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 888 | 15.5 | Italian | 67 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,854 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 170 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.4 | (X) | Polish | 85 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,152 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 838 | 38.9 | Russian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 167 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 197 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,728 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,307 | 68.1 | Swedish | 197 | 1.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,413 | 31.8 | Swiss | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,811 | 16.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,602 | 14.9 | United States or American | 1,321 | 11.6 | |
| Same state | 1,213 | 11.3 | Welsh | 73 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 389 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 755 | 6.6 | |
| 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)

