
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Otoe 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 | 15,396 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,963 | 100.0 | Native | 15,188 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 333 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 15,106 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 260 | 6.6 | State of residence | 11,512 | 74.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,866 | 47.1 | Different state | 3,594 | 23.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,008 | 25.4 | Born outside United States | 82 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 496 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 208 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 86 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 93 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,373 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 115 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 622 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 871 | 8.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,097 | 39.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 208 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,156 | 20.8 | Europe | 34 | 16.3 | |
| Associate degree | 749 | 7.2 | Asia | 37 | 17.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,297 | 12.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 581 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 122 | 58.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.6 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 7.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,402 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,105 | 100.0 | English only | 13,904 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 2,291 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 498 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,657 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 167 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 53 | 0.4 | Spanish | 348 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,114 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 926 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 134 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 990 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 567 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 15,396 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 189 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,370 | 106.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 73 | 38.6 | Arab | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 399 | 2.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 259 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,317 | 100.0 | Dutch | 356 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,730 | 15.3 | English | 1,425 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 455 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 60 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,425 | 48.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,498 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 143 | 4.1 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,005 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,934 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,313 | 16.4 | Italian | 257 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 67.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,692 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 324 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 85.7 | (X) | Polish | 301 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,569 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,039 | 40.4 | Russian | 75 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 165 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 213 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,402 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,401 | 58.3 | Swedish | 387 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,960 | 41.4 | Swiss | 105 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 2,946 | 20.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,014 | 20.9 | United States or American | 932 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 1,746 | 12.1 | Welsh | 74 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,268 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 41 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,157 | 7.5 | |
| 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)

