
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lincoln 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 | 4,165 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,192 | 100.0 | Native | 4,020 | 96.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 69 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 3,993 | 95.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 4.3 | State of residence | 1,246 | 29.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 506 | 42.4 | Different state | 2,747 | 66.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 450 | 37.8 | Born outside United States | 27 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 116 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 145 | 3.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 84 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 47 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,654 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 98 | 2.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 107 | 4.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 344 | 13.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,002 | 37.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 145 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 647 | 24.4 | Europe | 27 | 18.6 | |
| Associate degree | 154 | 5.8 | Asia | 16 | 11.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 266 | 10.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 134 | 5.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 87 | 60.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.0 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 10.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,897 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,243 | 100.0 | English only | 3,661 | 93.9 | |
| Never married | 544 | 16.8 | Language other than English | 236 | 6.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,031 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 62 | 1.9 | Spanish | 147 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 318 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 232 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 288 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 129 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 22 | 0.6 | |
| 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 | 4,165 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 66 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,710 | 113.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 69.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 22 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 136 | 3.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,908 | 100.0 | Dutch | 82 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 571 | 19.6 | English | 1,007 | 24.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 134 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 838 | 20.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 943 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 106 | 11.2 | Hungarian | 33 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,944 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 521 | 12.5 | |
| With a disability | 430 | 22.1 | Italian | 176 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 1,514 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 70 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 68.6 | (X) | Polish | 39 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 657 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 337 | 51.3 | Russian | 22 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 91 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 149 | 3.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,897 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,174 | 55.8 | Swedish | 129 | 3.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,653 | 42.4 | Swiss | 35 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 491 | 12.6 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,162 | 29.8 | United States or American | 311 | 7.5 | |
| Same state | 597 | 15.3 | Welsh | 123 | 3.0 | |
| Different state | 565 | 14.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 70 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 742 | 17.8 | |
| 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)

