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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Scott 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 40,422 100.0
      enrolled in school 10,018 100.0   Native 40,192 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 778 7.8       Born in United States 40,041 99.1
Kindergarten 553 5.5           State of residence 30,699 75.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 5,221 52.1           Different state 9,342 23.1
High school (grades 9-12) 2,300 23.0       Born outside United States 151 0.4
College or graduate school 1,166 11.6   Foreign born 230 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 122 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 96 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 25,749 100.0       Not a citizen 134 0.3
Less than 9th grade 3,127 12.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,860 15.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 10,984 42.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 230 100.0
Some college, no degree 4,469 17.4   Europe 84 36.5
Associate degree 567 2.2   Asia 81 35.2
Bachelor's degree 1,868 7.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 874 3.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 59 25.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.9 (X)   Northern America 6 2.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 37,543 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 31,195 100.0   English only 36,835 98.1
Never married 6,602 21.2   Language other than English 708 1.9
Now married, except separated 18,024 57.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 209 0.6
Separated 498 1.6   Spanish 350 0.9
Widowed 2,663 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 81 0.2
 Female 2,361 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 295 0.8
Divorced 3,408 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 89 0.2
 Female 1,841 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 61 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 39 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 40,422 100.0
           under 18 years 761 100.0     Total ancestries reported 33,230 82.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 372 48.9   Arab 17 0.0
        Czech¹ 83 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 40 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 29,312 100.0   Dutch 821 2.0
Civilian veterans 4,054 13.8   English 2,759 6.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,377 3.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 70 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 7,490 18.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 9,712 100.0   Greek 29 0.1
With a disability 791 8.1   Hungarian 6 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 22,173 100.0   Irish¹ 4,502 11.1
With a disability 4,496 20.3   Italian 259 0.6
 Percent employed 46.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 17,677 79.7   Norwegian 76 0.2
 Percent employed 79.7 (X)   Polish 242 0.6
     Population 65 years and over 5,173 100.0   Portuguese 2 0.0
With a disability 2,483 48.0   Russian 37 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 389 1.0
        Scottish 388 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 37,543 100.0   Subsaharan African 57 0.1
Same house in 1995 21,012 56.0   Swedish 135 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 16,346 43.5   Swiss 56 0.1
 Same county 10,038 26.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 6,308 16.8   United States or American 6,933 17.2
  Same state 4,028 10.7   Welsh 152 0.4
  Different state 2,280 6.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 26 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 185 0.5   Other ancestries 7,284 18.0
 
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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