
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stoddard 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 | 29,705 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,629 | 100.0 | Native | 29,571 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 363 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 29,499 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 375 | 5.7 | State of residence | 22,638 | 76.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,316 | 50.0 | Different state | 6,861 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,764 | 26.6 | Born outside United States | 72 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 811 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 134 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 96 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 52 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,121 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 82 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,926 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,739 | 18.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,818 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 134 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,968 | 14.8 | Europe | 25 | 18.7 | |
| Associate degree | 640 | 3.2 | Asia | 48 | 35.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,320 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 710 | 3.5 | Oceania | 15 | 11.2 | |
| Latin America | 41 | 30.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.9 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 3.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 28,039 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,052 | 100.0 | English only | 27,386 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 4,236 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 653 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,614 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 204 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 398 | 1.7 | Spanish | 396 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,259 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 126 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,856 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 177 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,545 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,416 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 29,705 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 550 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,268 | 71.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 348 | 63.3 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 39 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,631 | 100.0 | Dutch | 537 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,343 | 14.8 | English | 1,874 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 599 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,504 | 11.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,669 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 668 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,171 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,254 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,790 | 23.4 | Italian | 208 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 46.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,381 | 76.6 | Norwegian | 137 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.3 | (X) | Polish | 153 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,831 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,520 | 52.2 | Russian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 359 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 195 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 28,039 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,849 | 56.5 | Swedish | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,072 | 43.1 | Swiss | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,139 | 25.5 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,933 | 17.6 | United States or American | 6,491 | 21.9 | |
| Same state | 3,178 | 11.3 | Welsh | 78 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,755 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 118 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,520 | 11.8 | |
| 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)

