DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Polk 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 | 374,601 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 96,530 | 100.0 | Native | 352,439 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,506 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 350,659 | 93.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,587 | 5.8 | State of residence | 266,730 | 71.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 42,018 | 43.5 | Different state | 83,929 | 22.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 20,397 | 21.1 | Born outside United States | 1,780 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 21,022 | 21.8 | Foreign born | 22,162 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 13,741 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,072 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 243,458 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15,090 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,829 | 3.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,573 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 71,750 | 29.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22,162 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 53,454 | 22.0 | Europe | 5,724 | 25.8 | |
| Associate degree | 17,495 | 7.2 | Asia | 7,516 | 33.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 51,183 | 21.0 | Africa | 1,235 | 5.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 21,174 | 8.7 | Oceania | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 7,103 | 32.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.3 | (X) | Northern America | 491 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 29.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 346,421 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 293,638 | 100.0 | English only | 315,689 | 91.1 | |
| Never married | 75,395 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 30,732 | 8.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 165,682 | 56.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,300 | 4.4 | |
| Separated | 4,141 | 1.4 | Spanish | 13,536 | 3.9 | |
| Widowed | 16,029 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,855 | 2.0 | |
| Female | 13,164 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,721 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 32,391 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,784 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 19,222 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7,140 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,900 | 1.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 374,601 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,574 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 393,922 | 105.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,946 | 42.5 | Arab | 757 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,989 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6,906 | 1.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 278,392 | 100.0 | Dutch | 15,677 | 4.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 34,145 | 12.3 | English | 40,463 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,616 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,174 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 100,972 | 27.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 82,099 | 100.0 | Greek | 895 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,273 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 452 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 220,702 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 51,224 | 13.7 | |
| With a disability | 34,617 | 15.7 | Italian | 12,561 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 64.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 535 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 186,085 | 84.3 | Norwegian | 17,503 | 4.7 | |
| Percent employed | 84.2 | (X) | Polish | 4,482 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 38,979 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 79 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 15,364 | 39.4 | Russian | 1,450 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,204 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,720 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 227 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 346,421 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,251 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 172,443 | 49.8 | Swedish | 13,962 | 3.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 164,995 | 47.6 | Swiss | 1,083 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 102,897 | 29.7 | Ukrainian | 369 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 62,098 | 17.9 | United States or American | 24,264 | 6.5 | |
| Same state | 31,651 | 9.1 | Welsh | 4,227 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 30,447 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 227 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8,983 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 65,653 | 17.5 | |
| 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)
