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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lyon 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 34,501 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,802 100.0   Native 32,414 94.0
Nursery school, preschool 436 5.0       Born in United States 32,045 92.9
Kindergarten 565 6.4           State of residence 9,278 26.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 4,452 50.6           Different state 22,767 66.0
High school (grades 9-12) 2,263 25.7       Born outside United States 369 1.1
College or graduate school 1,086 12.3   Foreign born 2,087 6.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 810 2.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 997 2.9
  Population 25 years and over 22,863 100.0       Not a citizen 1,090 3.2
Less than 9th grade 1,199 5.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,029 13.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 7,533 32.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,087 100.0
Some college, no degree 6,988 30.6   Europe 296 14.2
Associate degree 1,531 6.7   Asia 129 6.2
Bachelor's degree 1,955 8.6   Africa 27 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 628 2.7   Oceania 42 2.0
        Latin America 1,482 71.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.5 (X)   Northern America 111 5.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 32,277 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 26,938 100.0   English only 28,756 89.1
Never married 4,799 17.8   Language other than English 3,521 10.9
Now married, except separated 16,234 60.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,436 4.4
Separated 401 1.5   Spanish 2,835 8.8
Widowed 1,675 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,312 4.1
 Female 1,311 4.9   Other Indo-European languages 469 1.5
Divorced 3,829 14.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 80 0.2
 Female 1,830 6.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 165 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 33 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 34,501 100.0
           under 18 years 615 100.0     Total ancestries reported 39,011 113.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 320 52.0   Arab 45 0.1
        Czech¹ 194 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 540 1.6
          Civilian population 18 years and over 25,165 100.0   Dutch 889 2.6
Civilian veterans 5,110 20.3   English 5,216 15.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,522 4.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 501 1.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,292 18.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 8,079 100.0   Greek 113 0.3
With a disability 636 7.9   Hungarian 244 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 19,022 100.0   Irish¹ 4,863 14.1
With a disability 4,445 23.4   Italian 2,222 6.4
 Percent employed 56.8 (X)   Lithuanian 39 0.1
No disability 14,577 76.6   Norwegian 1,001 2.9
 Percent employed 77.5 (X)   Polish 476 1.4
     Population 65 years and over 4,741 100.0   Portuguese 448 1.3
With a disability 2,031 42.8   Russian 229 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 871 2.5
        Scottish 791 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 19 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 32,277 100.0   Subsaharan African 22 0.1
Same house in 1995 14,237 44.1   Swedish 841 2.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 17,675 54.8   Swiss 330 1.0
 Same county 5,162 16.0   Ukrainian 42 0.1
 Different county 12,513 38.8   United States or American 2,410 7.0
  Same state 5,712 17.7   Welsh 331 1.0
  Different state 6,801 21.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 365 1.1   Other ancestries 8,520 24.7
 
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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