DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Saline 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 | 13,843 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,929 | 100.0 | Native | 13,009 | 94.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 237 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 12,941 | 93.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 157 | 4.0 | State of residence | 10,200 | 73.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,596 | 40.6 | Different state | 2,741 | 19.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 927 | 23.6 | Born outside United States | 68 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,012 | 25.8 | Foreign born | 834 | 6.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 480 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 139 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,691 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 695 | 5.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 878 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 754 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,423 | 39.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 834 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,654 | 19.0 | Europe | 123 | 14.7 | |
| Associate degree | 762 | 8.8 | Asia | 95 | 11.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 828 | 9.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 392 | 4.5 | Oceania | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 598 | 71.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.2 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,051 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,125 | 100.0 | English only | 11,385 | 87.2 | |
| Never married | 2,974 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 1,666 | 12.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,123 | 55.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 830 | 6.4 | |
| Separated | 108 | 1.0 | Spanish | 833 | 6.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,050 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 531 | 4.1 | |
| Female | 800 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 670 | 5.1 | |
| Divorced | 870 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 214 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 408 | 3.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 116 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,843 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 184 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,362 | 111.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 49 | 26.6 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,214 | 23.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 268 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,402 | 100.0 | Dutch | 232 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,484 | 14.3 | English | 1,000 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 194 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 56 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,586 | 40.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,619 | 100.0 | Greek | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 154 | 4.3 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,993 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,395 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 989 | 14.1 | Italian | 143 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,004 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 157 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 84.8 | (X) | Polish | 95 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,139 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 811 | 37.9 | Russian | 63 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 163 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 156 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,051 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,659 | 58.7 | Swedish | 363 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,135 | 39.3 | Swiss | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,088 | 16.0 | Ukrainian | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,047 | 23.3 | United States or American | 623 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 2,040 | 15.6 | Welsh | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,007 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 257 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 1,529 | 11.0 | |
| 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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