
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Roosevelt 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 | 10,620 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,651 | 100.0 | Native | 10,527 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 268 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 10,503 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 177 | 4.8 | State of residence | 7,950 | 74.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,844 | 50.5 | Different state | 2,553 | 24.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 870 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 24 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 492 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 93 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 29 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 47 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,107 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 46 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 456 | 7.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 730 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,979 | 32.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 93 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,507 | 24.7 | Europe | 24 | 25.8 | |
| Associate degree | 481 | 7.9 | Asia | 20 | 21.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 763 | 12.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 191 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 10 | 10.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.6 | (X) | Northern America | 39 | 41.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,764 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,596 | 100.0 | English only | 9,113 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 2,392 | 31.5 | Language other than English | 651 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,613 | 47.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 133 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 80 | 1.1 | Spanish | 62 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 602 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 471 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 144 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 909 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 495 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,620 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 468 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,572 | 109.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 369 | 78.8 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 304 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,945 | 100.0 | Dutch | 164 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,071 | 15.4 | English | 281 | 2.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 289 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 44 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,580 | 14.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,230 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 162 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,225 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 579 | 5.5 | |
| With a disability | 972 | 18.6 | Italian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 47.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,253 | 81.4 | Norwegian | 1,414 | 13.3 | |
| Percent employed | 68.7 | (X) | Polish | 122 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,126 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 462 | 41.0 | Russian | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 99 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 130 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,764 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,720 | 68.8 | Swedish | 264 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,968 | 30.4 | Swiss | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,898 | 19.4 | Ukrainian | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 1,070 | 11.0 | United States or American | 158 | 1.5 | |
| Same state | 595 | 6.1 | Welsh | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 475 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 76 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 5,898 | 55.5 | |
| 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)

