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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Republic 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 5,835 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,306 100.0   Native 5,789 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 87 6.7       Born in United States 5,748 98.5
Kindergarten 56 4.3           State of residence 4,481 76.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 629 48.2           Different state 1,267 21.7
High school (grades 9-12) 424 32.5       Born outside United States 41 0.7
College or graduate school 110 8.4   Foreign born 46 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 36 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 4,256 100.0       Not a citizen 10 0.2
Less than 9th grade 179 4.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 305 7.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,760 41.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 46 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,123 26.4   Europe 10 21.7
Associate degree 256 6.0   Asia 20 43.5
Bachelor's degree 456 10.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 177 4.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 13 28.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.6 (X)   Northern America 3 6.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,574 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,826 100.0   English only 5,392 96.7
Never married 737 15.3   Language other than English 182 3.3
Now married, except separated 3,171 65.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 72 1.3
Separated 38 0.8   Spanish 51 0.9
Widowed 558 11.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 26 0.5
 Female 463 9.6   Other Indo-European languages 104 1.9
Divorced 322 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.6
 Female 182 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 21 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,835 100.0
           under 18 years 23 100.0     Total ancestries reported 6,074 104.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 7 30.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 740 12.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 90 1.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,534 100.0   Dutch 115 2.0
Civilian veterans 704 15.5   English 677 11.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 269 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 26 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,371 23.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,186 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 68 5.7   Hungarian 14 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,852 100.0   Irish¹ 686 11.8
With a disability 541 19.0   Italian 24 0.4
 Percent employed 64.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,311 81.0   Norwegian 241 4.1
 Percent employed 86.8 (X)   Polish 89 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 1,394 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 478 34.3   Russian 14 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 101 1.7
        Scottish 108 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,574 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,625 65.0   Swedish 753 12.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,930 34.6   Swiss 13 0.2
 Same county 1,032 18.5   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 898 16.1   United States or American 378 6.5
  Same state 542 9.7   Welsh 63 1.1
  Different state 356 6.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 19 0.3   Other ancestries 302 5.2
 
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.
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