
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cavalier 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 | 4,831 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,094 | 100.0 | Native | 4,710 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 35 | 3.2 | Born in United States | 4,687 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 7.4 | State of residence | 4,165 | 86.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 596 | 54.5 | Different state | 522 | 10.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 354 | 32.4 | Born outside United States | 23 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 28 | 2.6 | Foreign born | 121 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 39 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 80 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,462 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 41 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 452 | 13.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 282 | 8.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,051 | 30.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 121 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 904 | 26.1 | Europe | 24 | 19.8 | |
| Associate degree | 319 | 9.2 | Asia | 5 | 4.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 366 | 10.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 88 | 2.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 6.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 84 | 69.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,622 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,904 | 100.0 | English only | 4,510 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 732 | 18.8 | Language other than English | 112 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,606 | 66.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 10 | 0.3 | Spanish | 28 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 366 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 338 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 81 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 190 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 67 | 1.7 | 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 | 4,831 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,699 | 138.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3 | 60.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 112 | 2.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 41 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,653 | 100.0 | Dutch | 69 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 474 | 13.0 | English | 391 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 455 | 9.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,527 | 52.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,078 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 39 | 3.6 | Hungarian | 21 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,437 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 380 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 280 | 11.5 | Italian | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 62.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,157 | 88.5 | Norwegian | 1,451 | 30.0 | |
| Percent employed | 78.3 | (X) | Polish | 92 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,057 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 340 | 32.2 | Russian | 54 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 171 | 3.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 250 | 5.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,622 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,548 | 76.8 | Swedish | 222 | 4.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,051 | 22.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 509 | 11.0 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 542 | 11.7 | United States or American | 52 | 1.1 | |
| Same state | 319 | 6.9 | Welsh | 21 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 223 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 352 | 7.3 | |
| 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)

