
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Osage 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 | 16,712 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,279 | 100.0 | Native | 16,611 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 320 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 16,551 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 164 | 3.8 | State of residence | 12,904 | 77.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,123 | 49.6 | Different state | 3,647 | 21.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,091 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 60 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 581 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 101 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 34 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 69 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,117 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 528 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,080 | 9.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,707 | 42.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 101 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,719 | 24.5 | Europe | 31 | 30.7 | |
| Associate degree | 489 | 4.4 | Asia | 23 | 22.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,091 | 9.8 | Africa | 6 | 5.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 503 | 4.5 | Oceania | 9 | 8.9 | |
| Latin America | 17 | 16.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.5 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 14.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,575 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,027 | 100.0 | English only | 15,181 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 2,278 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 394 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,447 | 64.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 137 | 1.1 | Spanish | 223 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 859 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 734 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 138 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,306 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 659 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,712 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 239 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,094 | 90.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 143 | 59.8 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 108 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 96 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,149 | 100.0 | Dutch | 427 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,018 | 16.6 | English | 1,857 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 696 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 96 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,131 | 24.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,905 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 278 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,971 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,110 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,744 | 19.4 | Italian | 192 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 60.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,227 | 80.6 | Norwegian | 202 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 83.7 | (X) | Polish | 140 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,436 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,037 | 42.6 | Russian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 491 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 384 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,575 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,381 | 60.2 | Swedish | 685 | 4.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,163 | 39.6 | Swiss | 86 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 2,843 | 18.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,320 | 21.3 | United States or American | 1,745 | 10.4 | |
| Same state | 2,660 | 17.1 | Welsh | 225 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 660 | 4.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,355 | 8.1 | |
| 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)

