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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Golden Valley 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 1,042 100.0
      enrolled in school 242 100.0   Native 1,015 97.4
Nursery school, preschool 2 0.8       Born in United States 1,001 96.1
Kindergarten 13 5.4           State of residence 705 67.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 148 61.2           Different state 296 28.4
High school (grades 9-12) 66 27.3       Born outside United States 14 1.3
College or graduate school 13 5.4   Foreign born 27 2.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 23 2.2
  Population 25 years and over 704 100.0       Not a citizen 4 0.4
Less than 9th grade 137 19.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 71 10.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 203 28.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 27 100.0
Some college, no degree 148 21.0   Europe 6 22.2
Associate degree 31 4.4   Asia 1 3.7
Bachelor's degree 94 13.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 20 2.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.5 (X)   Northern America 20 74.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 991 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 813 100.0   English only 840 84.8
Never married 147 18.1   Language other than English 151 15.2
Now married, except separated 562 69.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 1.7
Separated 6 0.7   Spanish 8 0.8
Widowed 33 4.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 27 3.3   Other Indo-European languages 141 14.2
Divorced 65 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 1.5
 Female 48 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,042 100.0
           under 18 years 2 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,100 105.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 10 1.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 11 1.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 752 100.0   Dutch 20 1.9
Civilian veterans 113 15.0   English 117 11.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 24 2.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 4 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 433 41.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 256 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 34 13.3   Hungarian 1 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 564 100.0   Irish¹ 68 6.5
With a disability 112 19.9   Italian 13 1.2
 Percent employed 58.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 452 80.1   Norwegian 83 8.0
 Percent employed 85.4 (X)   Polish 31 3.0
     Population 65 years and over 171 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 70 40.9   Russian 5 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 46 4.4
        Scottish 24 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 991 100.0   Subsaharan African 4 0.4
Same house in 1995 651 65.7   Swedish 17 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 340 34.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 85 8.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 255 25.7   United States or American 95 9.1
  Same state 181 18.3   Welsh 7 0.7
  Different state 74 7.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 87 8.3
 
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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