
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Musselshell 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 | 4,497 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,008 | 100.0 | Native | 4,409 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 41 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 4,385 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 4.1 | State of residence | 2,582 | 57.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 478 | 47.4 | Different state | 1,803 | 40.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 328 | 32.5 | Born outside United States | 24 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 120 | 11.9 | Foreign born | 88 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 19 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 45 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,181 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 43 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 184 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 369 | 11.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,212 | 38.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 88 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 708 | 22.3 | Europe | 39 | 44.3 | |
| Associate degree | 177 | 5.6 | Asia | 18 | 20.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 402 | 12.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 129 | 4.1 | Oceania | 2 | 2.3 | |
| Latin America | 10 | 11.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.6 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 21.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,266 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,685 | 100.0 | English only | 4,036 | 94.6 | |
| Never married | 653 | 17.7 | Language other than English | 230 | 5.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,232 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 31 | 0.8 | Spanish | 35 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 340 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 277 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 159 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 429 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 208 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 4,497 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 34 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,135 | 114.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 30 | 88.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 54 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 55 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,435 | 100.0 | Dutch | 167 | 3.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 640 | 18.6 | English | 780 | 17.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 189 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,268 | 28.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 968 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 39 | 4.0 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,507 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 527 | 11.7 | |
| With a disability | 473 | 18.9 | Italian | 137 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 49.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,034 | 81.1 | Norwegian | 384 | 8.5 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 48 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 752 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 311 | 41.4 | Russian | 123 | 2.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 156 | 3.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 159 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,266 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,553 | 59.8 | Swedish | 128 | 2.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,708 | 40.0 | Swiss | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 656 | 15.4 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 1,052 | 24.7 | United States or American | 263 | 5.8 | |
| Same state | 618 | 14.5 | Welsh | 40 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 434 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 541 | 12.0 | |
| 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)

