DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Mora 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 | 5,180 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,418 | 100.0 | Native | 5,093 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 94 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 5,049 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 4.2 | State of residence | 4,039 | 78.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 615 | 43.4 | Different state | 1,010 | 19.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 437 | 30.8 | Born outside United States | 44 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 212 | 15.0 | Foreign born | 87 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 26 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 73 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,348 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 481 | 14.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 530 | 15.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,061 | 31.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 602 | 18.0 | Europe | 3 | 3.4 | |
| Associate degree | 154 | 4.6 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 228 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 292 | 8.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 68 | 78.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.8 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 18.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,857 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,122 | 100.0 | English only | 1,526 | 31.4 | |
| Never married | 1,170 | 28.4 | Language other than English | 3,331 | 68.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,066 | 50.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,160 | 23.9 | |
| Separated | 167 | 4.1 | Spanish | 3,292 | 67.8 | |
| Widowed | 242 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,140 | 23.5 | |
| Female | 176 | 4.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 477 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 228 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 5,180 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 124 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,409 | 85.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 60 | 48.4 | Arab | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,780 | 100.0 | Dutch | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 570 | 15.1 | English | 62 | 1.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 44 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 171 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,298 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 84 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,665 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 73 | 1.4 | |
| With a disability | 612 | 23.0 | Italian | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 41.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,053 | 77.0 | Norwegian | 36 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.3 | (X) | Polish | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 885 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 422 | 47.7 | Russian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 21 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,857 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,364 | 69.3 | Swedish | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,470 | 30.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 482 | 9.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 988 | 20.3 | United States or American | 318 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 601 | 12.4 | Welsh | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 387 | 8.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,565 | 68.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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