
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Grant 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 | 747 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 210 | 100.0 | Native | 739 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5 | 2.4 | Born in United States | 739 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 6 | 2.9 | State of residence | 554 | 74.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 112 | 53.3 | Different state | 185 | 24.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 75 | 35.7 | Born outside United States | 0 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 12 | 5.7 | Foreign born | 8 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 493 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 10 | 2.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 38 | 7.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 154 | 31.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 122 | 24.7 | Europe | 5 | 62.5 | |
| Associate degree | 47 | 9.5 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 95 | 19.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 27 | 5.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.3 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 37.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 708 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 588 | 100.0 | English only | 700 | 98.9 | |
| Never married | 113 | 19.2 | Language other than English | 8 | 1.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 415 | 70.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Separated | 2 | 0.3 | Spanish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Widowed | 15 | 2.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 10 | 1.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 5 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 43 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 23 | 3.9 | 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 | 747 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,019 | 136.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 28 | 3.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 529 | 100.0 | Dutch | 39 | 5.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 64 | 12.1 | English | 116 | 15.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 27 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 363 | 48.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 198 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3 | 1.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 406 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 174 | 23.3 | |
| With a disability | 30 | 7.4 | Italian | 7 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 70.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 376 | 92.6 | Norwegian | 28 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 86.4 | (X) | Polish | 21 | 2.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 104 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 33 | 31.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 33 | 4.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 26 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 708 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 455 | 64.3 | Swedish | 27 | 3.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 253 | 35.7 | Swiss | 7 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 105 | 14.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 148 | 20.9 | United States or American | 56 | 7.5 | |
| Same state | 116 | 16.4 | Welsh | 8 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 32 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 55 | 7.4 | |
| 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)

