DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Foster 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 | 3,759 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 982 | 100.0 | Native | 3,703 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 89 | 9.1 | Born in United States | 3,680 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 6.0 | State of residence | 3,138 | 83.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 476 | 48.5 | Different state | 542 | 14.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 281 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 23 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 77 | 7.8 | Foreign born | 56 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 32 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,569 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 24 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 279 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 285 | 11.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 769 | 29.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 56 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 573 | 22.3 | Europe | 17 | 30.4 | |
| Associate degree | 155 | 6.0 | Asia | 7 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 368 | 14.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 140 | 5.4 | Oceania | 5 | 8.9 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 21.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.0 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 26.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,558 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,972 | 100.0 | English only | 3,411 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 590 | 19.9 | Language other than English | 147 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,872 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 29 | 1.0 | Spanish | 32 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 276 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 229 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 108 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 205 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 112 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 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 | 3,759 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 13 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,674 | 124.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 37 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 99 | 2.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,775 | 100.0 | Dutch | 98 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 311 | 11.2 | English | 179 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 119 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,772 | 47.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 881 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 50 | 5.7 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,878 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 294 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 233 | 12.4 | Italian | 11 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 1,645 | 87.6 | Norwegian | 1,256 | 33.4 | |
| Percent employed | 85.8 | (X) | Polish | 64 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 715 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 277 | 38.7 | Russian | 69 | 1.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 45 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 34 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,558 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,172 | 61.0 | Swedish | 177 | 4.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,354 | 38.1 | Swiss | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 709 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 645 | 18.1 | United States or American | 145 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 456 | 12.8 | Welsh | 19 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 189 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 178 | 4.7 | |
| 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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