
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Custer 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 | 7,275 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,731 | 100.0 | Native | 7,196 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 70 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 7,157 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 4.8 | State of residence | 3,780 | 52.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 740 | 42.7 | Different state | 3,377 | 46.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 653 | 37.7 | Born outside United States | 39 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 185 | 10.7 | Foreign born | 79 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 61 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,099 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 198 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 370 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,694 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 79 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,270 | 24.9 | Europe | 30 | 38.0 | |
| Associate degree | 321 | 6.3 | Asia | 17 | 21.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 888 | 17.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 358 | 7.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 13 | 16.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.9 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 24.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,931 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,054 | 100.0 | English only | 6,723 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 1,135 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 208 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,825 | 63.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 90 | 1.5 | Spanish | 93 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 437 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 348 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 44 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 567 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 279 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,275 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 63 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,335 | 114.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 44 | 69.8 | Arab | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 78 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 189 | 2.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,515 | 100.0 | Dutch | 244 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,201 | 21.8 | English | 923 | 12.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 406 | 5.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,519 | 34.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,443 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 118 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,078 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 977 | 13.4 | |
| With a disability | 708 | 17.4 | Italian | 193 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 56.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,370 | 82.6 | Norwegian | 574 | 7.9 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 211 | 2.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,142 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 411 | 36.0 | Russian | 66 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 125 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 207 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,931 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,858 | 55.7 | Swedish | 259 | 3.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,066 | 44.2 | Swiss | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 849 | 12.2 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 2,217 | 32.0 | United States or American | 327 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 979 | 14.1 | Welsh | 61 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,238 | 17.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 868 | 11.9 | |
| 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)

