DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Polk 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 | 5,639 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,408 | 100.0 | Native | 5,593 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 116 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 5,586 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 4.7 | State of residence | 4,754 | 84.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 651 | 46.2 | Different state | 832 | 14.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 423 | 30.0 | Born outside United States | 7 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 152 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 46 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 25 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,886 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 28 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 215 | 5.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 304 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,557 | 40.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 46 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 934 | 24.0 | Europe | 11 | 23.9 | |
| Associate degree | 353 | 9.1 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 372 | 9.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 151 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 28 | 60.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.6 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 15.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,324 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,522 | 100.0 | English only | 5,179 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 818 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 145 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,051 | 67.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 18 | 0.4 | Spanish | 81 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 355 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 281 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 280 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 136 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 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 | 5,639 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 28 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,568 | 116.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 14 | 50.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 219 | 3.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 128 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,222 | 100.0 | Dutch | 116 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 589 | 14.0 | English | 452 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 104 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,357 | 41.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,266 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 94 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,852 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 514 | 9.1 | |
| With a disability | 411 | 14.4 | Italian | 72 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 14 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 2,441 | 85.6 | Norwegian | 154 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 85.3 | (X) | Polish | 425 | 7.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,045 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 325 | 31.1 | Russian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 37 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 32 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,324 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,558 | 66.8 | Swedish | 1,255 | 22.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,744 | 32.8 | Swiss | 106 | 1.9 | |
| Same county | 703 | 13.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,041 | 19.6 | United States or American | 229 | 4.1 | |
| Same state | 810 | 15.2 | Welsh | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 231 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 300 | 5.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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