
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Redwood 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 | 16,815 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,054 | 100.0 | Native | 16,696 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 247 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 16,648 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 212 | 5.2 | State of residence | 14,556 | 86.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,079 | 51.3 | Different state | 2,092 | 12.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,213 | 29.9 | Born outside United States | 48 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 303 | 7.5 | Foreign born | 119 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 40 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 89 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,269 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,193 | 10.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,042 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,168 | 37.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 119 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,689 | 23.9 | Europe | 41 | 34.5 | |
| Associate degree | 663 | 5.9 | Asia | 50 | 42.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,205 | 10.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 309 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 6.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.2 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 16.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,770 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,297 | 100.0 | English only | 15,305 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 2,966 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 465 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,067 | 60.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 123 | 0.9 | Spanish | 264 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,131 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 74 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 959 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 132 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,010 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 518 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,815 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 65 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,483 | 115.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 14 | 21.5 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 504 | 3.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 683 | 4.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,355 | 100.0 | Dutch | 322 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,663 | 13.5 | English | 787 | 4.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 323 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,230 | 54.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,912 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 255 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,563 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,030 | 6.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,303 | 15.2 | Italian | 100 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 64.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,260 | 84.8 | Norwegian | 2,815 | 16.7 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 336 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,956 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,035 | 35.0 | Russian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 153 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 129 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,770 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,933 | 69.3 | Swedish | 695 | 4.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,822 | 30.6 | Swiss | 135 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 2,930 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,892 | 12.0 | United States or American | 493 | 2.9 | |
| Same state | 1,341 | 8.5 | Welsh | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 551 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 15 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,592 | 9.5 | |
| 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)

