
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Glacier 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 | 13,247 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,330 | 100.0 | Native | 12,967 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 313 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 12,802 | 96.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 233 | 5.4 | State of residence | 10,362 | 78.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,268 | 52.4 | Different state | 2,440 | 18.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,047 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 165 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 469 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 280 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 55 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 200 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,383 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 80 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 593 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 987 | 13.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,012 | 27.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 280 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,940 | 26.3 | Europe | 27 | 9.6 | |
| Associate degree | 633 | 8.6 | Asia | 22 | 7.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 801 | 10.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 417 | 5.6 | Oceania | 7 | 2.5 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.6 | (X) | Northern America | 224 | 80.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,171 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,451 | 100.0 | English only | 10,842 | 89.1 | |
| Never married | 2,909 | 30.8 | Language other than English | 1,329 | 10.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,994 | 52.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 576 | 4.7 | |
| Separated | 125 | 1.3 | Spanish | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Widowed | 587 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 438 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 483 | 4.0 | |
| Divorced | 836 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 364 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 496 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,247 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 574 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,633 | 102.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 377 | 65.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 38 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 76 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,586 | 100.0 | Dutch | 174 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,109 | 12.9 | English | 604 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 289 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 50 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,643 | 12.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,128 | 100.0 | Greek | 18 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 258 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,722 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 855 | 6.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,276 | 19.0 | Italian | 93 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 40.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,446 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 703 | 5.3 | |
| Percent employed | 68.6 | (X) | Polish | 142 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,187 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 543 | 45.7 | Russian | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 125 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 164 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,171 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,576 | 62.2 | Swedish | 151 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,485 | 36.8 | Swiss | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,963 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,522 | 12.5 | United States or American | 309 | 2.3 | |
| Same state | 813 | 6.7 | Welsh | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 709 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 110 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 8,004 | 60.4 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

