
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Worth 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 | 2,382 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 565 | 100.0 | Native | 2,377 | 99.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 54 | 9.6 | Born in United States | 2,372 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 4.6 | State of residence | 1,626 | 68.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 263 | 46.5 | Different state | 746 | 31.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 180 | 31.9 | Born outside United States | 5 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 42 | 7.4 | Foreign born | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,644 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 86 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 240 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 750 | 45.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 331 | 20.1 | Europe | 2 | 40.0 | |
| Associate degree | 51 | 3.1 | Asia | 3 | 60.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 142 | 8.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 44 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,254 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,936 | 100.0 | English only | 2,208 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 306 | 15.8 | Language other than English | 46 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,206 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 34 | 1.8 | Spanish | 26 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 201 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 162 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 18 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 189 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 93 | 4.8 | 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 | 2,382 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 16 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,901 | 79.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 11 | 68.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 11 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,805 | 100.0 | Dutch | 54 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 279 | 15.5 | English | 270 | 11.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 55 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 458 | 19.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 536 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 36 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,182 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 307 | 12.9 | |
| With a disability | 271 | 22.9 | Italian | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 911 | 77.1 | Norwegian | 34 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.9 | (X) | Polish | 25 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 488 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 214 | 43.9 | Russian | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 77 | 3.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 60 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,254 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,446 | 64.2 | Swedish | 44 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 808 | 35.8 | Swiss | 10 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 458 | 20.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 350 | 15.5 | United States or American | 297 | 12.5 | |
| Same state | 236 | 10.5 | Welsh | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 114 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 169 | 7.1 | |
| 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
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