DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Gentry 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 | 6,861 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,682 | 100.0 | Native | 6,817 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 151 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 6,796 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 4.8 | State of residence | 5,520 | 80.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 834 | 49.6 | Different state | 1,276 | 18.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 487 | 29.0 | Born outside United States | 21 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 129 | 7.7 | Foreign born | 44 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 26 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,599 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 259 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 580 | 12.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,097 | 45.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 44 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 829 | 18.0 | Europe | 32 | 72.7 | |
| Associate degree | 165 | 3.6 | Asia | 7 | 15.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 452 | 9.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 217 | 4.7 | Oceania | 3 | 6.8 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 4.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,428 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,415 | 100.0 | English only | 6,259 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 947 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 169 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,438 | 63.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 57 | 1.1 | Spanish | 106 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 588 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 498 | 9.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 46 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 385 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 181 | 3.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,861 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 67 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,290 | 77.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 35 | 52.2 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 31 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,074 | 100.0 | Dutch | 129 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 743 | 14.6 | English | 742 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 110 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,299 | 18.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,584 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 113 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,331 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 721 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 689 | 20.7 | Italian | 69 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 62.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,642 | 79.3 | Norwegian | 26 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 80.8 | (X) | Polish | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,373 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 635 | 46.2 | Russian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 165 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 132 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,428 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,889 | 60.5 | Swedish | 96 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,514 | 39.1 | Swiss | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,391 | 21.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,123 | 17.5 | United States or American | 1,091 | 15.9 | |
| Same state | 735 | 11.4 | Welsh | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 388 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 25 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 576 | 8.4 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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