
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Renville 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 | 17,154 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,278 | 100.0 | Native | 16,802 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 260 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 16,738 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 254 | 5.9 | State of residence | 14,505 | 84.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,144 | 50.1 | Different state | 2,233 | 13.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,253 | 29.3 | Born outside United States | 64 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 367 | 8.6 | Foreign born | 352 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 141 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 97 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,464 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 255 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,185 | 10.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,010 | 8.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,347 | 37.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 352 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,606 | 22.7 | Europe | 33 | 9.4 | |
| Associate degree | 866 | 7.6 | Asia | 32 | 9.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,157 | 10.1 | Africa | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 293 | 2.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 268 | 76.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.9 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 4.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 16,158 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,489 | 100.0 | English only | 14,963 | 92.6 | |
| Never married | 3,031 | 22.5 | Language other than English | 1,195 | 7.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,412 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 488 | 3.0 | |
| Separated | 79 | 0.6 | Spanish | 867 | 5.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,157 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 396 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 950 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 296 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 810 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 73 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 383 | 2.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 17,154 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 128 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 20,577 | 120.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 63 | 49.2 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 894 | 5.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 320 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,577 | 100.0 | Dutch | 532 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,717 | 13.7 | English | 575 | 3.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 375 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 79 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,094 | 53.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,133 | 100.0 | Greek | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 271 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,620 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,242 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,212 | 14.1 | Italian | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 7,408 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 3,378 | 19.7 | |
| Percent employed | 84.8 | (X) | Polish | 223 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,076 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,130 | 36.7 | Russian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 84 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 76 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 16,158 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,230 | 69.5 | Swedish | 1,471 | 8.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,859 | 30.1 | Swiss | 45 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,453 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,406 | 14.9 | United States or American | 461 | 2.7 | |
| Same state | 1,734 | 10.7 | Welsh | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 672 | 4.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 69 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 1,570 | 9.2 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

