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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sioux 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 31,589 100.0
      enrolled in school 10,299 100.0   Native 30,669 97.1
Nursery school, preschool 571 5.5       Born in United States 30,556 96.7
Kindergarten 466 4.5           State of residence 23,433 74.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,987 38.7           Different state 7,123 22.5
High school (grades 9-12) 2,355 22.9       Born outside United States 113 0.4
College or graduate school 2,920 28.4   Foreign born 920 2.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 516 1.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 284 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 18,172 100.0       Not a citizen 636 2.0
Less than 9th grade 2,376 13.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,193 6.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 6,111 33.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 920 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,695 20.3   Europe 247 26.8
Associate degree 1,200 6.6   Asia 175 19.0
Bachelor's degree 2,439 13.4   Africa 34 3.7
Graduate or professional degree 1,158 6.4   Oceania 6 0.7
        Latin America 321 34.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.4 (X)   Northern America 137 14.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 29,541 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 24,672 100.0   English only 27,865 94.3
Never married 6,828 27.7   Language other than English 1,676 5.7
Now married, except separated 15,390 62.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 616 2.1
Separated 107 0.4   Spanish 844 2.9
Widowed 1,504 6.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 404 1.4
 Female 1,267 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 671 2.3
Divorced 843 3.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 143 0.5
 Female 411 1.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 108 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 56 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 31,589 100.0
           under 18 years 95 100.0     Total ancestries reported 33,906 107.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 45 47.4   Arab 32 0.1
        Czech¹ 158 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 393 1.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 23,000 100.0   Dutch 18,235 57.7
Civilian veterans 2,271 9.9   English 881 2.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 338 1.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 19 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,715 21.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 9,253 100.0   Greek 16 0.1
With a disability 348 3.8   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 15,462 100.0   Irish¹ 1,338 4.2
With a disability 1,648 10.7   Italian 152 0.5
 Percent employed 68.0 (X)   Lithuanian 10 0.0
No disability 13,814 89.3   Norwegian 1,120 3.5
 Percent employed 87.7 (X)   Polish 110 0.3
     Population 65 years and over 4,323 100.0   Portuguese 15 0.0
With a disability 1,262 29.2   Russian 73 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 177 0.6
        Scottish 74 0.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 18 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 29,541 100.0   Subsaharan African 27 0.1
Same house in 1995 18,644 63.1   Swedish 671 2.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 10,349 35.0   Swiss 82 0.3
 Same county 5,751 19.5   Ukrainian 5 0.0
 Different county 4,598 15.6   United States or American 1,365 4.3
  Same state 1,965 6.7   Welsh 27 0.1
  Different state 2,633 8.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 548 1.9   Other ancestries 1,855 5.9
 
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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