
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lac qui Parle 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 | 8,067 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,860 | 100.0 | Native | 7,989 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 144 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 7,981 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 5.3 | State of residence | 6,669 | 82.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 921 | 49.5 | Different state | 1,312 | 16.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 569 | 30.6 | Born outside United States | 8 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 128 | 6.9 | Foreign born | 78 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 19 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,644 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 648 | 11.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 438 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,125 | 37.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 78 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,273 | 22.6 | Europe | 35 | 44.9 | |
| Associate degree | 429 | 7.6 | Asia | 27 | 34.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 544 | 9.6 | Africa | 1 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 187 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 9 | 11.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.8 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 7.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,664 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,516 | 100.0 | English only | 7,389 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 1,267 | 19.4 | Language other than English | 275 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,137 | 63.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 68 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 47 | 0.7 | Spanish | 73 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 670 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 556 | 8.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 191 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 395 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 170 | 2.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 8,067 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 40 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,135 | 125.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 27 | 67.5 | Arab | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 30 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 228 | 2.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,085 | 100.0 | Dutch | 224 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 832 | 13.7 | English | 316 | 3.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 176 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,396 | 42.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,812 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 102 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,963 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 327 | 4.1 | |
| With a disability | 652 | 16.5 | Italian | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 73.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,311 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 3,861 | 47.9 | |
| Percent employed | 85.0 | (X) | Polish | 123 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,683 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 562 | 33.4 | Russian | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 28 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 46 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,664 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,550 | 72.4 | Swedish | 765 | 9.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,094 | 27.3 | Swiss | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,065 | 13.9 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,029 | 13.4 | United States or American | 179 | 2.2 | |
| Same state | 688 | 9.0 | Welsh | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 341 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 20 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 304 | 3.8 | |
| 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
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