
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Moody 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 | 6,595 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,788 | 100.0 | Native | 6,505 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 62 | 3.5 | Born in United States | 6,490 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 4.5 | State of residence | 4,572 | 69.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 909 | 50.8 | Different state | 1,918 | 29.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 545 | 30.5 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 191 | 10.7 | Foreign born | 90 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 52 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 41 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,193 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 49 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 310 | 7.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 330 | 7.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,532 | 36.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 90 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,014 | 24.2 | Europe | 21 | 23.3 | |
| Associate degree | 277 | 6.6 | Asia | 46 | 51.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 538 | 12.8 | Africa | 3 | 3.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 192 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 20.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,176 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,075 | 100.0 | English only | 5,819 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 1,235 | 24.3 | Language other than English | 357 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,987 | 58.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 157 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 58 | 1.1 | Spanish | 84 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 376 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 322 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 119 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 419 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 186 | 3.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 55 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,595 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 69 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,983 | 121.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 45 | 65.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 297 | 4.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,673 | 100.0 | Dutch | 291 | 4.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 776 | 16.6 | English | 406 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 205 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 22 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,687 | 40.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,732 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 110 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,443 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 623 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 505 | 14.7 | Italian | 53 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,938 | 85.3 | Norwegian | 1,466 | 22.2 | |
| Percent employed | 87.1 | (X) | Polish | 74 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 943 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 325 | 34.5 | Russian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 32 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 97 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,176 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,891 | 63.0 | Swedish | 229 | 3.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,220 | 35.9 | Swiss | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,015 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,205 | 19.5 | United States or American | 220 | 3.3 | |
| Same state | 668 | 10.8 | Welsh | 34 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 537 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 65 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 1,136 | 17.2 | |
| 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)

