
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pawnee 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 | 3,087 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 672 | 100.0 | Native | 3,076 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 44 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 3,074 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 5.2 | State of residence | 2,442 | 79.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 349 | 51.9 | Different state | 632 | 20.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 195 | 29.0 | Born outside United States | 2 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 49 | 7.3 | Foreign born | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,228 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 157 | 7.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 207 | 9.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,004 | 45.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 11 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 424 | 19.0 | Europe | 7 | 63.6 | |
| Associate degree | 116 | 5.2 | Asia | 2 | 18.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 241 | 10.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 79 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 18.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,946 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,525 | 100.0 | English only | 2,861 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 475 | 18.8 | Language other than English | 85 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,541 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 16 | 0.6 | Spanish | 43 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 291 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 257 | 10.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 31 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 202 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 92 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,087 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,211 | 104.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4 | 100.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 287 | 9.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 25 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,392 | 100.0 | Dutch | 55 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 375 | 15.7 | English | 307 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 48 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,360 | 44.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 651 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 57 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,459 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 327 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 264 | 18.1 | Italian | 34 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 64.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,195 | 81.9 | Norwegian | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 85.9 | (X) | Polish | 47 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 781 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 298 | 38.2 | Russian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 80 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 40 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,946 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,001 | 67.9 | Swedish | 76 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 912 | 31.0 | Swiss | 107 | 3.5 | |
| Same county | 345 | 11.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 567 | 19.2 | United States or American | 217 | 7.0 | |
| Same state | 388 | 13.2 | Welsh | 25 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 179 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 33 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 152 | 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)

