
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: White Pine 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 | 9,181 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,290 | 100.0 | Native | 8,912 | 97.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 121 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 8,808 | 95.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 3.9 | State of residence | 3,884 | 42.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,063 | 46.4 | Different state | 4,924 | 53.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 658 | 28.7 | Born outside United States | 104 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 359 | 15.7 | Foreign born | 269 | 2.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 49 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 149 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,184 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 120 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 306 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 806 | 13.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,153 | 34.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 269 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,838 | 29.7 | Europe | 98 | 36.4 | |
| Associate degree | 350 | 5.7 | Asia | 54 | 20.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 437 | 7.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 294 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 96 | 35.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.0 | (X) | Northern America | 21 | 7.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,631 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,353 | 100.0 | English only | 7,791 | 90.3 | |
| Never married | 1,512 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 840 | 9.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,313 | 58.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 235 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 109 | 1.5 | Spanish | 494 | 5.7 | |
| Widowed | 579 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 1.7 | |
| Female | 474 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 264 | 3.1 | |
| Divorced | 840 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 324 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 59 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,181 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 135 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,634 | 94.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 123 | 91.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 255 | 2.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,970 | 100.0 | Dutch | 183 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,349 | 19.4 | English | 1,866 | 20.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 262 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,153 | 12.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,935 | 100.0 | Greek | 107 | 1.2 | |
| With a disability | 144 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,271 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 729 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 953 | 22.3 | Italian | 354 | 3.9 | |
| Percent employed | 49.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,318 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 126 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.5 | (X) | Polish | 111 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,197 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 600 | 50.1 | Russian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 71 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 316 | 3.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,631 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,535 | 52.5 | Swedish | 280 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,032 | 46.7 | Swiss | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,442 | 16.7 | Ukrainian | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 2,590 | 30.0 | United States or American | 423 | 4.6 | |
| Same state | 968 | 11.2 | Welsh | 101 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 1,622 | 18.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 64 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,134 | 23.2 | |
| 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)

