
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Keya Paha 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 | 983 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 196 | 100.0 | Native | 961 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2 | 1.0 | Born in United States | 961 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 10 | 5.1 | State of residence | 664 | 67.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 116 | 59.2 | Different state | 297 | 30.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 56 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 0 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 12 | 6.1 | Foreign born | 22 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 22 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 681 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 45 | 6.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 76 | 11.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 246 | 36.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 156 | 22.9 | Europe | 1 | 4.5 | |
| Associate degree | 51 | 7.5 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 80 | 11.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 27 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 17 | 77.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.2 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 18.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 924 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 780 | 100.0 | English only | 886 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 132 | 16.9 | Language other than English | 38 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 543 | 69.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 2 | 0.3 | Spanish | 30 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 68 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 51 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 8 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 35 | 4.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 10 | 1.3 | 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 | 983 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 983 | 100.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 10 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 29 | 3.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 747 | 100.0 | Dutch | 13 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 103 | 13.8 | English | 144 | 14.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 40 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 374 | 38.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 211 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5 | 2.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 511 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 103 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 63 | 12.3 | Italian | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 60.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 448 | 87.7 | Norwegian | 20 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 82.8 | (X) | Polish | 4 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 202 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 87 | 43.1 | Russian | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 22 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 23 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 924 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 704 | 76.2 | Swedish | 70 | 7.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 218 | 23.6 | Swiss | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 86 | 9.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 132 | 14.3 | United States or American | 70 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 66 | 7.1 | Welsh | 8 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 66 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 48 | 4.9 | |
| 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)

