
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Griggs 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 | 2,754 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 609 | 100.0 | Native | 2,726 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 24 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 2,715 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 4.3 | State of residence | 2,307 | 83.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 292 | 47.9 | Different state | 408 | 14.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 227 | 37.3 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 40 | 6.6 | Foreign born | 28 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 19 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,993 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 254 | 12.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 170 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 650 | 32.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 28 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 483 | 24.2 | Europe | 12 | 42.9 | |
| Associate degree | 123 | 6.2 | Asia | 4 | 14.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 256 | 12.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 57 | 2.9 | Oceania | 6 | 21.4 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.7 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 21.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,627 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,280 | 100.0 | English only | 2,555 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 459 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 72 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,469 | 64.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 12 | 0.5 | Spanish | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Widowed | 232 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 195 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 68 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 108 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 49 | 2.1 | 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 | 2,754 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,376 | 122.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 65 | 2.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,125 | 100.0 | Dutch | 29 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 284 | 13.4 | English | 134 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 64 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 934 | 33.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 587 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 26 | 4.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,331 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 103 | 3.7 | |
| With a disability | 159 | 11.9 | Italian | 12 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 64.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,172 | 88.1 | Norwegian | 1,623 | 58.9 | |
| Percent employed | 84.2 | (X) | Polish | 27 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 649 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 232 | 35.7 | Russian | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 21 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 16 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,627 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,959 | 74.6 | Swedish | 179 | 6.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 651 | 24.8 | Swiss | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 354 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 297 | 11.3 | United States or American | 47 | 1.7 | |
| Same state | 190 | 7.2 | Welsh | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 107 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 17 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 70 | 2.5 | |
| 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
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