
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Burt 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 | 7,791 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,891 | 100.0 | Native | 7,708 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 87 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 7,676 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 138 | 7.3 | State of residence | 6,010 | 77.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 926 | 49.0 | Different state | 1,666 | 21.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 568 | 30.0 | Born outside United States | 32 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 172 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 83 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 26 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,382 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 57 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 266 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 592 | 11.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,183 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 83 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,238 | 23.0 | Europe | 31 | 37.3 | |
| Associate degree | 340 | 6.3 | Asia | 8 | 9.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 586 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 177 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 42 | 50.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.1 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,345 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,198 | 100.0 | English only | 7,152 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,078 | 17.4 | Language other than English | 193 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,055 | 65.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 61 | 1.0 | Spanish | 131 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 572 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 473 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 432 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 236 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 7,791 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 63 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,899 | 114.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 25 | 39.7 | Arab | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 204 | 2.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 579 | 7.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,779 | 100.0 | Dutch | 215 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 953 | 16.5 | English | 717 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 212 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 29 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,872 | 36.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,751 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 78 | 4.5 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,886 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,008 | 12.9 | |
| With a disability | 472 | 12.1 | Italian | 132 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 53.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,414 | 87.9 | Norwegian | 138 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 86.4 | (X) | Polish | 184 | 2.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,597 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 542 | 33.9 | Russian | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 123 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 213 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,345 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,667 | 63.5 | Swedish | 1,107 | 14.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,659 | 36.2 | Swiss | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,318 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,341 | 18.3 | United States or American | 553 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 863 | 11.7 | Welsh | 45 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 478 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 19 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 496 | 6.4 | |
| 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)

