
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pembina 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 | 8,585 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,954 | 100.0 | Native | 8,261 | 96.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 119 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 8,120 | 94.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 103 | 5.3 | State of residence | 6,642 | 77.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 998 | 51.1 | Different state | 1,478 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 633 | 32.4 | Born outside United States | 141 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 101 | 5.2 | Foreign born | 324 | 3.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 101 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 221 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,908 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 103 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 688 | 11.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 504 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,885 | 31.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 324 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,419 | 24.0 | Europe | 30 | 9.3 | |
| Associate degree | 443 | 7.5 | Asia | 17 | 5.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 762 | 12.9 | Africa | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 207 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 44 | 13.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.8 | (X) | Northern America | 231 | 71.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,148 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,962 | 100.0 | English only | 7,694 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 1,507 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 454 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,278 | 61.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 48 | 0.7 | Spanish | 213 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 672 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 79 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 552 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 220 | 2.7 | |
| Divorced | 457 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 217 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,585 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 41 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,341 | 132.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 19 | 46.3 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 136 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 84 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,433 | 100.0 | Dutch | 114 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 950 | 14.8 | English | 806 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 958 | 11.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 96 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,597 | 30.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,952 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 123 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,470 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 780 | 9.1 | |
| With a disability | 705 | 15.8 | Italian | 54 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 60.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,765 | 84.2 | Norwegian | 2,440 | 28.4 | |
| Percent employed | 81.2 | (X) | Polish | 482 | 5.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,529 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 509 | 33.3 | Russian | 53 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 278 | 3.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 260 | 3.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,148 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,618 | 68.9 | Swedish | 371 | 4.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,487 | 30.5 | Swiss | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,430 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 48 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 1,057 | 13.0 | United States or American | 202 | 2.4 | |
| Same state | 667 | 8.2 | Welsh | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 390 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 43 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,509 | 17.6 | |
| 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
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