
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greeley 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 | 1,534 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 395 | 100.0 | Native | 1,403 | 91.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 17 | 4.3 | Born in United States | 1,394 | 90.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 6.6 | State of residence | 1,029 | 67.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 218 | 55.2 | Different state | 365 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 115 | 29.1 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 19 | 4.8 | Foreign born | 131 | 8.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 100 | 6.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 983 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 121 | 7.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 80 | 8.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 80 | 8.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 288 | 29.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 131 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 300 | 30.5 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 64 | 6.5 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 126 | 12.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 45 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 131 | 100.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,436 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,177 | 100.0 | English only | 1,266 | 88.2 | |
| Never married | 207 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 170 | 11.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 780 | 66.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 6.8 | |
| Separated | 10 | 0.8 | Spanish | 150 | 10.4 | |
| Widowed | 87 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 85 | 5.9 | |
| Female | 73 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 20 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 93 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 47 | 4.0 | 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 | 1,534 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 9 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,447 | 94.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8 | 88.9 | Arab | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 11 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,093 | 100.0 | Dutch | 23 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 129 | 11.8 | English | 181 | 11.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 30 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 472 | 30.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 389 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 27 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 770 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 143 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 125 | 16.2 | Italian | 28 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 65.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 645 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 7 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 81.4 | (X) | Polish | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 250 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 96 | 38.4 | Russian | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 38 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 24 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,436 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 915 | 63.7 | Swedish | 44 | 2.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 505 | 35.2 | Swiss | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 203 | 14.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 302 | 21.0 | United States or American | 174 | 11.3 | |
| Same state | 180 | 12.5 | Welsh | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 122 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 16 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 248 | 16.2 | |
| 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)

