
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sanborn 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 | 2,675 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 653 | 100.0 | Native | 2,659 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 16 | 2.5 | Born in United States | 2,655 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 5.7 | State of residence | 2,304 | 86.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 316 | 48.4 | Different state | 351 | 13.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 217 | 33.2 | Born outside United States | 4 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 67 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 16 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,788 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 162 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 147 | 8.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 695 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 16 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 401 | 22.4 | Europe | 4 | 25.0 | |
| Associate degree | 118 | 6.6 | Asia | 8 | 50.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 212 | 11.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 53 | 3.0 | Oceania | 2 | 12.5 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 12.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,528 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,146 | 100.0 | English only | 2,377 | 94.0 | |
| Never married | 468 | 21.8 | Language other than English | 151 | 6.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,305 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88 | 3.5 | |
| Separated | 25 | 1.2 | Spanish | 21 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 163 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 131 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 122 | 4.8 | |
| Divorced | 185 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 76 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,675 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 17 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,974 | 111.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7 | 41.2 | Arab | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 81 | 3.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,987 | 100.0 | Dutch | 88 | 3.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 334 | 16.8 | English | 197 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 71 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,144 | 42.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 659 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 57 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,348 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 259 | 9.7 | |
| With a disability | 191 | 14.2 | Italian | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 62.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,157 | 85.8 | Norwegian | 498 | 18.6 | |
| Percent employed | 85.7 | (X) | Polish | 36 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 482 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 165 | 34.2 | Russian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 42 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 20 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,528 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,748 | 69.1 | Swedish | 71 | 2.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 777 | 30.7 | Swiss | 45 | 1.7 | |
| Same county | 412 | 16.3 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 365 | 14.4 | United States or American | 195 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 240 | 9.5 | Welsh | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 125 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 153 | 5.7 | |
| 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)

