
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Phillips 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 | 4,601 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,174 | 100.0 | Native | 4,553 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 76 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 4,523 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 8.3 | State of residence | 3,572 | 77.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 561 | 47.8 | Different state | 951 | 20.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 384 | 32.7 | Born outside United States | 30 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 55 | 4.7 | Foreign born | 48 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 30 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,102 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 18 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 249 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 297 | 9.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,102 | 35.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 48 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 774 | 25.0 | Europe | 4 | 8.3 | |
| Associate degree | 151 | 4.9 | Asia | 3 | 6.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 431 | 13.9 | Africa | 2 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 98 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.4 | (X) | Northern America | 39 | 81.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,373 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,625 | 100.0 | English only | 4,201 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 772 | 21.3 | Language other than English | 172 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,239 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 38 | 1.0 | Spanish | 22 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 272 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 235 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 136 | 3.1 | |
| Divorced | 304 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 160 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 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 | 4,601 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 45 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,721 | 124.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 29 | 64.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 69 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 117 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,349 | 100.0 | Dutch | 133 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 442 | 13.2 | English | 403 | 8.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 262 | 5.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 33 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,379 | 30.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,141 | 100.0 | Greek | 13 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 57 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,427 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 603 | 13.1 | |
| With a disability | 402 | 16.6 | Italian | 50 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 65.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,025 | 83.4 | Norwegian | 976 | 21.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 109 | 2.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 744 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 371 | 49.9 | Russian | 35 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 121 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 234 | 5.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,373 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,832 | 64.8 | Swedish | 253 | 5.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,505 | 34.4 | Swiss | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 916 | 20.9 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 589 | 13.5 | United States or American | 128 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 392 | 9.0 | Welsh | 28 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 197 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 749 | 16.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

