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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Chase 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 4,068 100.0
      enrolled in school 969 100.0   Native 4,012 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 90 9.3       Born in United States 3,995 98.2
Kindergarten 36 3.7           State of residence 2,790 68.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 496 51.2           Different state 1,205 29.6
High school (grades 9-12) 290 29.9       Born outside United States 17 0.4
College or graduate school 57 5.9   Foreign born 56 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 19 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 17 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 2,791 100.0       Not a citizen 39 1.0
Less than 9th grade 143 5.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 237 8.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,104 39.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 56 100.0
Some college, no degree 617 22.1   Europe 8 14.3
Associate degree 228 8.2   Asia 2 3.6
Bachelor's degree 342 12.3   Africa 2 3.6
Graduate or professional degree 120 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 38 67.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.4 (X)   Northern America 6 10.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,840 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,264 100.0   English only 3,730 97.1
Never married 558 17.1   Language other than English 110 2.9
Now married, except separated 2,134 65.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 30 0.8
Separated 29 0.9   Spanish 92 2.4
Widowed 291 8.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.7
 Female 244 7.5   Other Indo-European languages 18 0.5
Divorced 252 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.1
 Female 112 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 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 4,068 100.0
           under 18 years 18 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,119 101.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 11 61.1   Arab 3 0.1
        Czech¹ 98 2.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 62 1.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,034 100.0   Dutch 102 2.5
Civilian veterans 431 14.2   English 579 14.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 70 1.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 11 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,610 39.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 908 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 44 4.8   Hungarian 3 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,061 100.0   Irish¹ 444 10.9
With a disability 340 16.5   Italian 40 1.0
 Percent employed 68.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,721 83.5   Norwegian 47 1.2
 Percent employed 82.3 (X)   Polish 39 1.0
     Population 65 years and over 770 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 256 33.2   Russian 22 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 51 1.3
        Scottish 74 1.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,840 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,372 61.8   Swedish 138 3.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,460 38.0   Swiss 38 0.9
 Same county 683 17.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 777 20.2   United States or American 402 9.9
  Same state 366 9.5   Welsh 26 0.6
  Different state 411 10.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 7 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 8 0.2   Other ancestries 253 6.2
 
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.
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