
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nuckolls 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 | 5,057 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,187 | 100.0 | Native | 5,025 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 87 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 5,002 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 2.7 | State of residence | 3,916 | 77.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 556 | 46.8 | Different state | 1,086 | 21.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 393 | 33.1 | Born outside United States | 23 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 119 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 32 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 17 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,567 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 23 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 294 | 8.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 260 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,427 | 40.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 32 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 829 | 23.2 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 288 | 8.1 | Asia | 15 | 46.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 313 | 8.8 | Africa | 3 | 9.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 156 | 4.4 | Oceania | 5 | 15.6 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 12.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.5 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 15.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,795 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,141 | 100.0 | English only | 4,687 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 754 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 108 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,635 | 63.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 26 | 0.6 | Spanish | 61 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 464 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 391 | 9.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 29 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 262 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 125 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.3 | |
| 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 | 5,057 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 39 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,307 | 104.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 22 | 56.4 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 309 | 6.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 361 | 7.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,859 | 100.0 | Dutch | 79 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 606 | 15.7 | English | 498 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 144 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,417 | 47.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,106 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 76 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,446 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 409 | 8.1 | |
| With a disability | 423 | 17.3 | Italian | 36 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 61.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,023 | 82.7 | Norwegian | 69 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 88.5 | (X) | Polish | 29 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,198 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 441 | 36.8 | Russian | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 65 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 53 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,795 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,329 | 69.4 | Swedish | 192 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,450 | 30.2 | Swiss | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 699 | 14.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 751 | 15.7 | United States or American | 266 | 5.3 | |
| Same state | 502 | 10.5 | Welsh | 39 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 249 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 16 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 285 | 5.6 | |
| 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)

