
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Phillips 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 | 6,001 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,384 | 100.0 | Native | 5,978 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 90 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 5,967 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 4.5 | State of residence | 4,480 | 74.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 717 | 51.8 | Different state | 1,487 | 24.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 391 | 28.3 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 124 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 23 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,182 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 369 | 8.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 285 | 6.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,541 | 36.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 23 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,079 | 25.8 | Europe | 11 | 47.8 | |
| Associate degree | 236 | 5.6 | Asia | 12 | 52.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 535 | 12.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 137 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,664 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,818 | 100.0 | English only | 5,548 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 811 | 16.8 | Language other than English | 116 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,276 | 68.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 17 | 0.4 | Spanish | 66 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 449 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 384 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 40 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 265 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 128 | 2.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,001 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 36 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,425 | 90.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 11 | 30.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 46 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 91 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,514 | 100.0 | Dutch | 431 | 7.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 688 | 15.2 | English | 673 | 11.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 188 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 28 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,936 | 32.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,310 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 87 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,031 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 492 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 523 | 17.3 | Italian | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 60.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,508 | 82.7 | Norwegian | 61 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 87.3 | (X) | Polish | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,173 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 458 | 39.0 | Russian | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 145 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 90 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,664 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,601 | 63.6 | Swedish | 200 | 3.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,062 | 36.4 | Swiss | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 1,210 | 21.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 852 | 15.0 | United States or American | 468 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 464 | 8.2 | Welsh | 45 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 388 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 420 | 7.0 | |
| 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)

