
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Meagher 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 | 1,932 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 428 | 100.0 | Native | 1,898 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 34 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 1,889 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 24 | 5.6 | State of residence | 1,221 | 63.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 234 | 54.7 | Different state | 668 | 34.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 126 | 29.4 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 10 | 2.3 | Foreign born | 34 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 24 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,334 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 84 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 138 | 10.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 496 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 34 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 304 | 22.8 | Europe | 14 | 41.2 | |
| Associate degree | 62 | 4.6 | Asia | 2 | 5.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 204 | 15.3 | Africa | 2 | 5.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 46 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 5.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.4 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 41.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,829 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,541 | 100.0 | English only | 1,710 | 93.5 | |
| Never married | 271 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 119 | 6.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 970 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 32 | 2.1 | Spanish | 21 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 137 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 122 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 92 | 5.0 | |
| Divorced | 131 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 49 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 1,932 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 15 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,182 | 112.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6 | 40.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 45 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,445 | 100.0 | Dutch | 40 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 258 | 17.9 | English | 304 | 15.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 42 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 560 | 29.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 442 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 31 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,030 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 317 | 16.4 | |
| With a disability | 145 | 14.1 | Italian | 12 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 52.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 885 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 266 | 13.8 | |
| Percent employed | 80.3 | (X) | Polish | 20 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 331 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 119 | 36.0 | Russian | 11 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 69 | 3.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 79 | 4.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,829 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,184 | 64.7 | Swedish | 73 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 636 | 34.8 | Swiss | 21 | 1.1 | |
| Same county | 282 | 15.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 354 | 19.4 | United States or American | 119 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 211 | 11.5 | Welsh | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 143 | 7.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 159 | 8.2 | |
| 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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