
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sarpy 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 | 122,595 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 38,813 | 100.0 | Native | 118,100 | 96.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,721 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 115,439 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,246 | 5.8 | State of residence | 59,576 | 48.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,946 | 43.7 | Different state | 55,863 | 45.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,097 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 2,661 | 2.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,803 | 22.7 | Foreign born | 4,495 | 3.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,611 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,434 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 73,804 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,061 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,403 | 1.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,564 | 4.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 18,236 | 24.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,495 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 21,665 | 29.4 | Europe | 1,346 | 29.9 | |
| Associate degree | 6,611 | 9.0 | Asia | 1,779 | 39.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 15,173 | 20.6 | Africa | 144 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,152 | 9.7 | Oceania | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,047 | 23.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.3 | (X) | Northern America | 169 | 3.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 112,578 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 91,102 | 100.0 | English only | 105,654 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 21,000 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 6,924 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 57,594 | 63.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,649 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 1,026 | 1.1 | Spanish | 3,195 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 3,414 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,208 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 2,749 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,945 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 8,068 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 554 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 4,748 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,607 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 813 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 122,595 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,391 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 151,706 | 123.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 673 | 48.4 | Arab | 265 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 6,716 | 5.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,068 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 79,300 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,885 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 16,186 | 20.4 | English | 13,507 | 11.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,983 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 869 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 42,515 | 34.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 31,645 | 100.0 | Greek | 347 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,336 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 366 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 66,776 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 20,117 | 16.4 | |
| With a disability | 8,282 | 12.4 | Italian | 6,009 | 4.9 | |
| Percent employed | 70.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 406 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 58,494 | 87.6 | Norwegian | 3,874 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 83.8 | (X) | Polish | 6,997 | 5.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,671 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 292 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,660 | 34.7 | Russian | 564 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,006 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,294 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 156 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 112,578 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 431 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 52,190 | 46.4 | Swedish | 5,098 | 4.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 57,214 | 50.8 | Swiss | 518 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 18,274 | 16.2 | Ukrainian | 191 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 38,940 | 34.6 | United States or American | 5,770 | 4.7 | |
| Same state | 17,533 | 15.6 | Welsh | 762 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 21,407 | 19.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 62 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,174 | 2.8 | Other ancestries | 21,638 | 17.6 | |
| 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)

