
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Barnes 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 | 11,775 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,096 | 100.0 | Native | 11,664 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 124 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 11,645 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 149 | 4.8 | State of residence | 9,686 | 82.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,186 | 38.3 | Different state | 1,959 | 16.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 725 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 19 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 912 | 29.5 | Foreign born | 111 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 76 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 45 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,792 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 66 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 633 | 8.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 538 | 6.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,529 | 32.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 111 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,829 | 23.5 | Europe | 59 | 53.2 | |
| Associate degree | 543 | 7.0 | Asia | 11 | 9.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,356 | 17.4 | Africa | 8 | 7.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 364 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 16.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.0 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 13.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,152 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,693 | 100.0 | English only | 10,792 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 2,565 | 26.5 | Language other than English | 360 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,486 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 69 | 0.7 | Spanish | 87 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 863 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 716 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 251 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 710 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 381 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,775 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 64 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,789 | 134.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 40 | 62.5 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 183 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 338 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,136 | 100.0 | Dutch | 341 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,229 | 13.5 | English | 496 | 4.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 498 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 71 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,613 | 47.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,711 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 227 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 68 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,076 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,003 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 840 | 13.8 | Italian | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 58.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,236 | 86.2 | Norwegian | 4,799 | 40.8 | |
| Percent employed | 81.4 | (X) | Polish | 224 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,134 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 699 | 32.8 | Russian | 206 | 1.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 153 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 122 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,152 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,930 | 62.1 | Swedish | 664 | 5.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,130 | 37.0 | Swiss | 48 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,290 | 20.5 | Ukrainian | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 1,840 | 16.5 | United States or American | 333 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 1,326 | 11.9 | Welsh | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 514 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 92 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 497 | 4.2 | |
| 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)

