
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 8,775 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,774 | 100.0 | Native | 8,671 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 69 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 8,628 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 5.6 | State of residence | 3,519 | 40.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 765 | 43.1 | Different state | 5,109 | 58.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 414 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 43 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 426 | 24.0 | Foreign born | 104 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 16 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 71 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,578 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 33 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 575 | 8.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 974 | 14.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,221 | 33.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 104 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,342 | 20.4 | Europe | 70 | 67.3 | |
| Associate degree | 453 | 6.9 | Asia | 14 | 13.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 607 | 9.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 406 | 6.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 5.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.5 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 13.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,412 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,479 | 100.0 | English only | 8,204 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 1,096 | 14.7 | Language other than English | 208 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,965 | 66.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 52 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 143 | 1.9 | Spanish | 100 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 673 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 521 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 101 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 602 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 344 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 8,775 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 120 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,969 | 79.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 70 | 58.3 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,144 | 100.0 | Dutch | 205 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,304 | 18.3 | English | 1,075 | 12.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 162 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 983 | 11.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,519 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 100 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,903 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 888 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,235 | 25.2 | Italian | 311 | 3.5 | |
| Percent employed | 51.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,668 | 74.8 | Norwegian | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 74.0 | (X) | Polish | 35 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,881 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 878 | 46.7 | Russian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 488 | 5.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 150 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,412 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,900 | 58.3 | Swedish | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,466 | 41.2 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,237 | 14.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,229 | 26.5 | United States or American | 1,714 | 19.5 | |
| Same state | 644 | 7.7 | Welsh | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,585 | 18.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 46 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 754 | 8.6 | |
| 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
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