
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dunn 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 | 3,600 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 972 | 100.0 | Native | 3,576 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 39 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 3,572 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 6.4 | State of residence | 3,118 | 86.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 474 | 48.8 | Different state | 454 | 12.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 326 | 33.5 | Born outside United States | 4 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 71 | 7.3 | Foreign born | 24 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 17 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,393 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 303 | 12.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 236 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 771 | 32.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 24 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 528 | 22.1 | Europe | 14 | 58.3 | |
| Associate degree | 166 | 6.9 | Asia | 8 | 33.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 315 | 13.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 74 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 8.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,399 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,816 | 100.0 | English only | 3,133 | 92.2 | |
| Never married | 674 | 23.9 | Language other than English | 266 | 7.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,703 | 60.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 2.2 | |
| Separated | 21 | 0.7 | Spanish | 22 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 218 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 169 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 169 | 5.0 | |
| Divorced | 200 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 102 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,600 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 41 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,998 | 111.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 19 | 46.3 | Arab | 17 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 190 | 5.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 51 | 1.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,602 | 100.0 | Dutch | 36 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 359 | 13.8 | English | 135 | 3.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 36 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 22 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,512 | 42.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 896 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 27 | 3.0 | Hungarian | 52 | 1.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,879 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 215 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 274 | 14.6 | Italian | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 63.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,605 | 85.4 | Norwegian | 658 | 18.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.0 | (X) | Polish | 44 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 570 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 243 | 42.6 | Russian | 150 | 4.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 25 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 15 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,399 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,382 | 70.1 | Swedish | 77 | 2.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,010 | 29.7 | Swiss | 20 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 398 | 11.7 | Ukrainian | 54 | 1.5 | |
| Different county | 612 | 18.0 | United States or American | 108 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 440 | 12.9 | Welsh | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 172 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 563 | 15.6 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

