
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cimarron 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 | 3,148 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 780 | 100.0 | Native | 2,823 | 89.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 29 | 3.7 | Born in United States | 2,809 | 89.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 8.1 | State of residence | 1,457 | 46.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 416 | 53.3 | Different state | 1,352 | 42.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 206 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 14 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 66 | 8.5 | Foreign born | 325 | 10.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 208 | 6.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 90 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,077 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 235 | 7.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 252 | 12.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 235 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 655 | 31.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 325 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 501 | 24.1 | Europe | 6 | 1.8 | |
| Associate degree | 67 | 3.2 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 282 | 13.6 | Africa | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 85 | 4.1 | Oceania | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 300 | 92.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.6 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 4.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,936 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,442 | 100.0 | English only | 2,467 | 84.0 | |
| Never married | 396 | 16.2 | Language other than English | 469 | 16.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,630 | 66.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 226 | 7.7 | |
| Separated | 18 | 0.7 | Spanish | 437 | 14.9 | |
| Widowed | 184 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 213 | 7.3 | |
| Female | 143 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 32 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 214 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 115 | 4.7 | 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 | 3,148 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 43 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,664 | 84.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 33 | 76.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,283 | 100.0 | Dutch | 70 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 246 | 10.8 | English | 308 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 46 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 362 | 11.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 727 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 35 | 4.8 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,601 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 288 | 9.1 | |
| With a disability | 264 | 16.5 | Italian | 23 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 66.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,337 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.5 | (X) | Polish | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 564 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 231 | 41.0 | Russian | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 73 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 33 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,936 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,872 | 63.8 | Swedish | 17 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 949 | 32.3 | Swiss | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 451 | 15.4 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 498 | 17.0 | United States or American | 460 | 14.6 | |
| Same state | 183 | 6.2 | Welsh | 11 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 315 | 10.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 115 | 3.9 | Other ancestries | 912 | 29.0 | |
| 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)

