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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Benton 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 8,026 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,002 100.0   Native 7,969 99.3
Nursery school, preschool 165 8.2       Born in United States 7,967 99.3
Kindergarten 170 8.5           State of residence 5,850 72.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,004 50.1           Different state 2,117 26.4
High school (grades 9-12) 453 22.6       Born outside United States 2 0.0
College or graduate school 210 10.5   Foreign born 57 0.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 26 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 55 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 5,073 100.0       Not a citizen 2 0.0
Less than 9th grade 859 16.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,230 24.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,632 32.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 57 100.0
Some college, no degree 738 14.5   Europe 23 40.4
Associate degree 218 4.3   Asia 1 1.8
Bachelor's degree 310 6.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 86 1.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 25 43.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 58.8 (X)   Northern America 8 14.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,443 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,252 100.0   English only 7,335 98.5
Never married 1,505 24.1   Language other than English 108 1.5
Now married, except separated 3,442 55.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 45 0.6
Separated 180 2.9   Spanish 81 1.1
Widowed 600 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 34 0.5
 Female 470 7.5   Other Indo-European languages 27 0.4
Divorced 525 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.1
 Female 248 4.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                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 8,026 100.0
           under 18 years 220 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,202 64.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 114 51.8   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 7 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 9 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,870 100.0   Dutch 58 0.7
Civilian veterans 594 10.1   English 941 11.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 50 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 10 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 128 1.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,905 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 163 8.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,219 100.0   Irish¹ 320 4.0
With a disability 1,316 31.2   Italian 25 0.3
 Percent employed 40.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,903 68.8   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 70.4 (X)   Polish 14 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,202 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 555 46.2   Russian 2 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 64 0.8
        Scottish 37 0.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 7,443 100.0   Subsaharan African 23 0.3
Same house in 1995 4,872 65.5   Swedish 4 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,534 34.0   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,283 17.2   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,251 16.8   United States or American 1,400 17.4
  Same state 795 10.7   Welsh 22 0.3
  Different state 456 6.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 37 0.5   Other ancestries 2,088 26.0
 
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.
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