
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sanders 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 | 10,227 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,280 | 100.0 | Native | 10,024 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 84 | 3.7 | Born in United States | 9,961 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 3.9 | State of residence | 3,914 | 38.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,197 | 52.5 | Different state | 6,047 | 59.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 682 | 29.9 | Born outside United States | 63 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 229 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 203 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 62 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 80 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,242 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 123 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 369 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 995 | 13.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,693 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 203 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,651 | 22.8 | Europe | 75 | 36.9 | |
| Associate degree | 408 | 5.6 | Asia | 32 | 15.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 798 | 11.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 328 | 4.5 | Oceania | 4 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 32 | 15.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.2 | (X) | Northern America | 60 | 29.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,743 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,331 | 100.0 | English only | 9,349 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 1,432 | 17.2 | Language other than English | 394 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,102 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 112 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 130 | 1.6 | Spanish | 118 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 691 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 519 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 201 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 976 | 11.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 470 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,227 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 107 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,837 | 106.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 55 | 51.4 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 74 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 173 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,797 | 100.0 | Dutch | 289 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,699 | 21.8 | English | 1,452 | 14.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 429 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 161 | 1.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,160 | 21.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,253 | 100.0 | Greek | 31 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 185 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,721 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,420 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,398 | 24.4 | Italian | 259 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 48.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 32 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 4,323 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 627 | 6.1 | |
| Percent employed | 67.7 | (X) | Polish | 192 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,685 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 771 | 45.8 | Russian | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 335 | 3.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 350 | 3.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,743 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,523 | 56.7 | Swedish | 229 | 2.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,123 | 42.3 | Swiss | 66 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,574 | 16.2 | Ukrainian | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 2,549 | 26.2 | United States or American | 609 | 6.0 | |
| Same state | 852 | 8.7 | Welsh | 73 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,697 | 17.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 97 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 1,723 | 16.8 | |
| 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)

