
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 | 11,006 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,661 | 100.0 | Native | 10,852 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 133 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 10,814 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 141 | 5.3 | State of residence | 8,476 | 77.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,312 | 49.3 | Different state | 2,338 | 21.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 703 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 38 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 372 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 154 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 56 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 64 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,549 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 90 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 372 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,104 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,992 | 39.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 154 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,683 | 22.3 | Europe | 38 | 24.7 | |
| Associate degree | 346 | 4.6 | Asia | 11 | 7.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 839 | 11.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 213 | 2.8 | Oceania | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 92 | 59.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.4 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 7.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,360 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,784 | 100.0 | English only | 10,020 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 1,380 | 15.7 | Language other than English | 340 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,721 | 65.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 93 | 1.1 | Spanish | 243 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 721 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 92 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 609 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 76 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 869 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 452 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 11,006 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 258 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,143 | 83.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 130 | 50.4 | Arab | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 60 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,230 | 100.0 | Dutch | 222 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,387 | 16.9 | English | 1,044 | 9.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 229 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,650 | 15.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,464 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 225 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,065 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,362 | 12.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,165 | 19.2 | Italian | 136 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,900 | 80.8 | Norwegian | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,699 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 774 | 45.6 | Russian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 176 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 175 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,360 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,319 | 61.0 | Swedish | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,013 | 38.7 | Swiss | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,358 | 13.1 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,655 | 25.6 | United States or American | 1,761 | 16.0 | |
| Same state | 2,124 | 20.5 | Welsh | 67 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 531 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 28 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,946 | 17.7 | |
| 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
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