
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Garden 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 | 2,292 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 492 | 100.0 | Native | 2,271 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 42 | 8.5 | Born in United States | 2,264 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 5.1 | State of residence | 1,633 | 71.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 252 | 51.2 | Different state | 631 | 27.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 150 | 30.5 | Born outside United States | 7 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 23 | 4.7 | Foreign born | 21 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 11 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 19 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,685 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 83 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 166 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 679 | 40.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 411 | 24.4 | Europe | 6 | 28.6 | |
| Associate degree | 107 | 6.4 | Asia | 11 | 52.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 168 | 10.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 71 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 19.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,209 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,904 | 100.0 | English only | 2,143 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 297 | 15.6 | Language other than English | 66 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,181 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 19 | 1.0 | Spanish | 43 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 243 | 12.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 202 | 10.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 164 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 79 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,292 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 15 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,600 | 113.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 10 | 66.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 48 | 2.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 69 | 3.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,793 | 100.0 | Dutch | 85 | 3.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 249 | 13.9 | English | 308 | 13.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 71 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 979 | 42.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 470 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 32 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,186 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 337 | 14.7 | |
| With a disability | 200 | 16.9 | Italian | 41 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 986 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 31 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 86.3 | (X) | Polish | 47 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 492 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 175 | 35.6 | Russian | 23 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 101 | 4.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 18 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,209 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,335 | 60.4 | Swedish | 122 | 5.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 866 | 39.2 | Swiss | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 336 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 530 | 24.0 | United States or American | 174 | 7.6 | |
| Same state | 240 | 10.9 | Welsh | 13 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 290 | 13.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 107 | 4.7 | |
| 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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