
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sherburne 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 | 64,417 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,430 | 100.0 | Native | 63,430 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,376 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 63,097 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,252 | 6.4 | State of residence | 52,544 | 81.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,013 | 46.4 | Different state | 10,553 | 16.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,379 | 22.5 | Born outside United States | 333 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,410 | 17.6 | Foreign born | 987 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 366 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 647 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 38,349 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 340 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,112 | 2.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,757 | 7.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,464 | 32.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 987 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,321 | 29.5 | Europe | 222 | 22.5 | |
| Associate degree | 3,253 | 8.5 | Asia | 279 | 28.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,297 | 13.8 | Africa | 11 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,145 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 349 | 35.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.9 | (X) | Northern America | 126 | 12.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 59,074 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 47,785 | 100.0 | English only | 56,558 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 12,057 | 25.2 | Language other than English | 2,516 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,011 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 800 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 384 | 0.8 | Spanish | 1,179 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,749 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 388 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,454 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 978 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,584 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 265 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,921 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 253 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 64,417 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 599 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 83,526 | 129.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 220 | 36.7 | Arab | 74 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,273 | 2.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,107 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 44,527 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,253 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,462 | 12.3 | English | 3,213 | 5.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,631 | 5.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,053 | 1.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 29,140 | 45.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,194 | 100.0 | Greek | 213 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,114 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 361 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 36,323 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,582 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 4,837 | 13.3 | Italian | 1,033 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 71.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 31,486 | 86.7 | Norwegian | 10,860 | 16.9 | |
| Percent employed | 86.7 | (X) | Polish | 4,558 | 7.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,210 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 47 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,805 | 42.9 | Russian | 230 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 512 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 618 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 53 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 59,074 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 31,952 | 54.1 | Swedish | 7,369 | 11.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 26,936 | 45.6 | Swiss | 266 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 6,845 | 11.6 | Ukrainian | 160 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 20,091 | 34.0 | United States or American | 2,393 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 17,651 | 29.9 | Welsh | 197 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,440 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 186 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 6,262 | 9.7 | |
| 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)

