
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stevens 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 | 10,053 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,536 | 100.0 | Native | 9,882 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 143 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 9,827 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 3.1 | State of residence | 7,998 | 79.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 911 | 25.8 | Different state | 1,829 | 18.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 661 | 18.7 | Born outside United States | 55 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,713 | 48.4 | Foreign born | 171 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 87 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,790 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 114 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 492 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 411 | 7.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,973 | 34.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 171 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,231 | 21.3 | Europe | 59 | 34.5 | |
| Associate degree | 488 | 8.4 | Asia | 46 | 26.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 847 | 14.6 | Africa | 23 | 13.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 348 | 6.0 | Oceania | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 27 | 15.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.4 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 8.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,519 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,355 | 100.0 | English only | 9,075 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 2,828 | 33.8 | Language other than English | 444 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,461 | 53.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 128 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 37 | 0.4 | Spanish | 193 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 646 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 577 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 185 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 383 | 4.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 188 | 2.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,053 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 42 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,545 | 124.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 13 | 31.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 111 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 212 | 2.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,878 | 100.0 | Dutch | 412 | 4.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 754 | 9.6 | English | 457 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 305 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 71 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,860 | 48.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,823 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 148 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,996 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 984 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 646 | 12.9 | Italian | 86 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,350 | 87.1 | Norwegian | 2,462 | 24.5 | |
| Percent employed | 84.5 | (X) | Polish | 219 | 2.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,596 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 563 | 35.3 | Russian | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 71 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 91 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,519 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 36 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,055 | 53.1 | Swedish | 767 | 7.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,382 | 46.0 | Swiss | 173 | 1.7 | |
| Same county | 1,705 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 46 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 2,677 | 28.1 | United States or American | 299 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 1,958 | 20.6 | Welsh | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 719 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 82 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 806 | 8.0 | |
| 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)

