
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Frontier 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 | 3,099 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 947 | 100.0 | Native | 3,069 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 43 | 4.5 | Born in United States | 3,059 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 3.2 | State of residence | 2,392 | 77.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 367 | 38.8 | Different state | 667 | 21.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 267 | 28.2 | Born outside United States | 10 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 240 | 25.3 | Foreign born | 30 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 19 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,941 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 85 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 143 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 672 | 34.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 30 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 458 | 23.6 | Europe | 9 | 30.0 | |
| Associate degree | 235 | 12.1 | Asia | 9 | 30.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 257 | 13.2 | Africa | 1 | 3.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 91 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 11 | 36.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,928 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,501 | 100.0 | English only | 2,840 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 614 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 88 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,569 | 62.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 6 | 0.2 | Spanish | 60 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 141 | 5.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 117 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 20 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 171 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 78 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,099 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 30 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,285 | 106.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 25 | 83.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 52 | 1.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 109 | 3.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,294 | 100.0 | Dutch | 58 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 329 | 14.3 | English | 466 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 76 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,291 | 41.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 875 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 41 | 4.7 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,532 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 325 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 251 | 16.4 | Italian | 34 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,281 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 62 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 84.1 | (X) | Polish | 71 | 2.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 472 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 175 | 37.1 | Russian | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 46 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 47 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,928 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,794 | 61.3 | Swedish | 154 | 5.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,125 | 38.4 | Swiss | 22 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 310 | 10.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 815 | 27.8 | United States or American | 149 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 578 | 19.7 | Welsh | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 237 | 8.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 272 | 8.8 | |
| 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
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