DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Howard 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 | 6,567 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,723 | 100.0 | Native | 6,517 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 67 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 6,499 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 6.6 | State of residence | 5,744 | 87.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 917 | 53.2 | Different state | 755 | 11.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 464 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 161 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 50 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 17 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 22 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,327 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 280 | 6.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 273 | 6.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,872 | 43.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 50 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,052 | 24.3 | Europe | 16 | 32.0 | |
| Associate degree | 234 | 5.4 | Asia | 7 | 14.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 453 | 10.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 163 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 25 | 50.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.2 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 4.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,179 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,104 | 100.0 | English only | 6,020 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 971 | 19.0 | Language other than English | 159 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,318 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 63 | 1.2 | Spanish | 70 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 423 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 349 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 82 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 329 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 159 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,567 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 34 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,925 | 120.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 25 | 73.5 | Arab | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 598 | 9.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 633 | 9.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,722 | 100.0 | Dutch | 112 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 676 | 14.3 | English | 588 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 119 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,733 | 41.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,627 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 110 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,420 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 681 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 530 | 15.5 | Italian | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 69.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,890 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 68 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 86.9 | (X) | Polish | 1,147 | 17.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,090 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 432 | 39.6 | Russian | 23 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 70 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 42 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,179 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,926 | 63.5 | Swedish | 319 | 4.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,232 | 36.1 | Swiss | 32 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 890 | 14.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,342 | 21.7 | United States or American | 311 | 4.7 | |
| Same state | 1,110 | 18.0 | Welsh | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 232 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 21 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 377 | 5.7 | |
| 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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