
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Itasca 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 | 43,992 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,950 | 100.0 | Native | 43,424 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 593 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 43,251 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 601 | 5.5 | State of residence | 35,399 | 80.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,005 | 45.7 | Different state | 7,852 | 17.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,070 | 28.0 | Born outside United States | 173 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,681 | 15.4 | Foreign born | 568 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 214 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 337 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,931 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 231 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,422 | 4.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,894 | 9.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,958 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 568 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,911 | 26.4 | Europe | 216 | 38.0 | |
| Associate degree | 2,466 | 8.2 | Asia | 107 | 18.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,711 | 12.4 | Africa | 4 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,569 | 5.2 | Oceania | 4 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 80 | 14.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.6 | (X) | Northern America | 157 | 27.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,680 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 35,555 | 100.0 | English only | 40,103 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 7,542 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 1,577 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,665 | 60.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 369 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 296 | 0.8 | Spanish | 335 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,707 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,079 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 624 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,345 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 138 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,750 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 98 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 43,992 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 409 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 53,272 | 121.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 196 | 47.9 | Arab | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 738 | 1.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 616 | 1.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,294 | 100.0 | Dutch | 791 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,128 | 18.4 | English | 3,313 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,456 | 5.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 962 | 2.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,957 | 29.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,184 | 100.0 | Greek | 53 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 658 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,934 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,557 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,517 | 18.9 | Italian | 1,642 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 17 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 19,417 | 81.1 | Norwegian | 6,787 | 15.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,488 | 3.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,088 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,776 | 39.2 | Russian | 113 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 530 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 493 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 56 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,680 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,392 | 63.3 | Swedish | 4,589 | 10.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,013 | 36.0 | Swiss | 169 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 8,471 | 20.3 | Ukrainian | 50 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,542 | 15.7 | United States or American | 1,797 | 4.1 | |
| Same state | 4,440 | 10.7 | Welsh | 156 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,102 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 275 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 8,863 | 20.1 | |
| 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)

