
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hood 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 | 41,100 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,233 | 100.0 | Native | 39,761 | 96.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 553 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 39,428 | 95.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 561 | 6.1 | State of residence | 26,360 | 64.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,638 | 50.2 | Different state | 13,068 | 31.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,247 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 333 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,234 | 13.4 | Foreign born | 1,339 | 3.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 596 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 529 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,621 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 810 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,237 | 4.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,497 | 12.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,466 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,339 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,216 | 28.7 | Europe | 175 | 13.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,340 | 4.7 | Asia | 98 | 7.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,047 | 14.1 | Africa | 7 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,818 | 6.4 | Oceania | 14 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,025 | 76.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.5 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 1.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,723 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,061 | 100.0 | English only | 35,811 | 92.5 | |
| Never married | 4,794 | 14.5 | Language other than English | 2,912 | 7.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,942 | 66.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,134 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 534 | 1.6 | Spanish | 2,486 | 6.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,443 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,008 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 1,977 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 319 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 3,348 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,855 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 97 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 41,100 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 856 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,635 | 89.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 627 | 73.2 | Arab | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 186 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 140 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,310 | 100.0 | Dutch | 903 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,034 | 19.3 | English | 5,058 | 12.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,039 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 144 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,768 | 14.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,708 | 100.0 | Greek | 60 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 739 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,382 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,607 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,432 | 19.8 | Italian | 661 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,950 | 80.2 | Norwegian | 377 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 74.4 | (X) | Polish | 516 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,184 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 57 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,930 | 40.8 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,340 | 3.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,052 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 63 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,723 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,814 | 48.6 | Swedish | 373 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,602 | 50.6 | Swiss | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,462 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 12,140 | 31.4 | United States or American | 6,647 | 16.2 | |
| Same state | 9,141 | 23.6 | Welsh | 116 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,999 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 67 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 307 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 7,351 | 17.9 | |
| 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)

