
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nodaway 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 | 21,912 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,420 | 100.0 | Native | 21,614 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 335 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 21,558 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 275 | 3.3 | State of residence | 15,135 | 69.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,896 | 22.5 | Different state | 6,423 | 29.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,167 | 13.9 | Born outside United States | 56 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,747 | 56.4 | Foreign born | 298 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 157 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 125 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,169 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 173 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 550 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,019 | 8.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,012 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 298 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,436 | 20.0 | Europe | 71 | 23.8 | |
| Associate degree | 286 | 2.4 | Asia | 176 | 59.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,554 | 12.8 | Africa | 24 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,312 | 10.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 21 | 7.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.1 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,882 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,552 | 100.0 | English only | 20,053 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 6,729 | 36.3 | Language other than English | 829 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,097 | 49.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 388 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 149 | 0.8 | Spanish | 409 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,323 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 163 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,048 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 237 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,254 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 565 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 164 | 0.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,912 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 77 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,399 | 88.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 59.7 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 102 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 230 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,678 | 100.0 | Dutch | 578 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,792 | 10.1 | English | 2,545 | 11.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 524 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,808 | 26.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,027 | 100.0 | Greek | 27 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 446 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,262 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,178 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,479 | 13.1 | Italian | 260 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 63.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 9,783 | 86.9 | Norwegian | 188 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 82.2 | (X) | Polish | 209 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,786 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,185 | 42.5 | Russian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 510 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 481 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,882 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,522 | 50.4 | Swedish | 366 | 1.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,158 | 48.6 | Swiss | 95 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 4,404 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,754 | 27.6 | United States or American | 2,380 | 10.9 | |
| Same state | 3,099 | 14.8 | Welsh | 110 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,655 | 12.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 202 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 1,657 | 7.6 | |
| 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)

