DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bowman 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 | 3,242 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 752 | 100.0 | Native | 3,230 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 26 | 3.5 | Born in United States | 3,228 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 3.9 | State of residence | 2,441 | 75.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 391 | 52.0 | Different state | 787 | 24.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 245 | 32.6 | Born outside United States | 2 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 61 | 8.1 | Foreign born | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 11 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,290 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 213 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 195 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 735 | 32.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 12 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 544 | 23.8 | Europe | 6 | 50.0 | |
| Associate degree | 194 | 8.5 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 330 | 14.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 79 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 41.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.2 | (X) | Northern America | 1 | 8.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,094 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,642 | 100.0 | English only | 3,043 | 98.4 | |
| Never married | 483 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 51 | 1.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,711 | 64.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 3 | 0.1 | Spanish | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Widowed | 277 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 212 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 36 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 168 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 78 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 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 | 3,242 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 10 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,232 | 130.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6 | 60.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 96 | 3.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 51 | 1.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,462 | 100.0 | Dutch | 70 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 254 | 10.3 | English | 200 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 106 | 3.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,532 | 47.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 707 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 28 | 4.0 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,667 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 320 | 9.9 | |
| With a disability | 197 | 11.8 | Italian | 29 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 74.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,470 | 88.2 | Norwegian | 1,092 | 33.7 | |
| Percent employed | 88.8 | (X) | Polish | 209 | 6.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 632 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 213 | 33.7 | Russian | 44 | 1.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 34 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 15 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,094 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,980 | 64.0 | Swedish | 195 | 6.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,114 | 36.0 | Swiss | 20 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 533 | 17.2 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 581 | 18.8 | United States or American | 33 | 1.0 | |
| Same state | 301 | 9.7 | Welsh | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 280 | 9.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 142 | 4.4 | |
| 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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