DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cochran 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 | 3,730 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,081 | 100.0 | Native | 3,364 | 90.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 51 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 3,335 | 89.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 3.4 | State of residence | 2,855 | 76.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 561 | 51.9 | Different state | 480 | 12.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 347 | 32.1 | Born outside United States | 29 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 85 | 7.9 | Foreign born | 366 | 9.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 106 | 2.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 111 | 3.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,236 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 255 | 6.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 480 | 21.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 355 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 631 | 28.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 366 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 446 | 19.9 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 97 | 4.3 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 126 | 5.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 101 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 359 | 98.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.7 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,460 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,814 | 100.0 | English only | 1,998 | 57.7 | |
| Never married | 583 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 1,462 | 42.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,751 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 623 | 18.0 | |
| Separated | 72 | 2.6 | Spanish | 1,425 | 41.2 | |
| Widowed | 229 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 592 | 17.1 | |
| Female | 192 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 37 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 179 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 94 | 3.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 3,730 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 128 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,170 | 85.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 110 | 85.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,554 | 100.0 | Dutch | 25 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 234 | 9.2 | English | 184 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 16 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 369 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,044 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 62 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,819 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 238 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 393 | 21.6 | Italian | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 39.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,426 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.7 | (X) | Polish | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 522 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 257 | 49.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 72 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 35 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,460 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,199 | 63.6 | Swedish | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,175 | 34.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 663 | 19.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 512 | 14.8 | United States or American | 361 | 9.7 | |
| Same state | 416 | 12.0 | Welsh | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 96 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 86 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 1,789 | 48.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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