
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clay 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 | 7,976 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,712 | 100.0 | Native | 7,888 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 79 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 7,882 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 4.7 | State of residence | 5,194 | 65.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 885 | 51.7 | Different state | 2,688 | 33.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 422 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 6 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 245 | 14.3 | Foreign born | 88 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 39 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 48 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,623 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,338 | 23.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,001 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,169 | 38.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 88 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 662 | 11.8 | Europe | 21 | 23.9 | |
| Associate degree | 72 | 1.3 | Asia | 33 | 37.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 252 | 4.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 129 | 2.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 34 | 38.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 58.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,575 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,576 | 100.0 | English only | 7,441 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 1,200 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 134 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,873 | 58.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 74 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 146 | 2.2 | Spanish | 90 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 679 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 536 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Divorced | 678 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 369 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,976 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 109 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,355 | 67.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 61 | 56.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,261 | 100.0 | Dutch | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 667 | 10.7 | English | 428 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 83 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 252 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,629 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 117 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,644 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 357 | 4.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,478 | 31.8 | Italian | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 47.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,166 | 68.2 | Norwegian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.7 | (X) | Polish | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,203 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 575 | 47.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 119 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 49 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,575 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,894 | 64.6 | Swedish | 36 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,650 | 35.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,493 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,157 | 15.3 | United States or American | 3,141 | 39.4 | |
| Same state | 575 | 7.6 | Welsh | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 582 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 797 | 10.0 | |
| 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
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