
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hutchinson 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 | 23,857 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,379 | 100.0 | Native | 22,472 | 94.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 406 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 22,370 | 93.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 361 | 5.7 | State of residence | 15,401 | 64.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,026 | 47.4 | Different state | 6,969 | 29.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,552 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 102 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,034 | 16.2 | Foreign born | 1,385 | 5.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 541 | 2.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 350 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,282 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,035 | 4.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,108 | 7.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,014 | 13.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,203 | 34.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,385 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,855 | 25.2 | Europe | 66 | 4.8 | |
| Associate degree | 913 | 6.0 | Asia | 35 | 2.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,458 | 9.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 731 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,276 | 92.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.6 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 0.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,221 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,597 | 100.0 | English only | 19,329 | 87.0 | |
| Never married | 3,178 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 2,892 | 13.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,792 | 63.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,009 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 317 | 1.7 | Spanish | 2,703 | 12.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,493 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 980 | 4.4 | |
| Female | 1,169 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 143 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,817 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 928 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,857 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 435 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 20,235 | 84.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 317 | 72.9 | Arab | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 118 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 46 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,317 | 100.0 | Dutch | 633 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,617 | 15.1 | English | 2,356 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 396 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 31 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,424 | 10.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,945 | 100.0 | Greek | 25 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 393 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,560 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,531 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,730 | 21.7 | Italian | 151 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,830 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 140 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 74.8 | (X) | Polish | 136 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,615 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,638 | 45.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 387 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 316 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,221 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 65 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,141 | 59.1 | Swedish | 152 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,892 | 40.0 | Swiss | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,306 | 23.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,586 | 16.1 | United States or American | 3,702 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 2,393 | 10.8 | Welsh | 90 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,193 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 188 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 6,382 | 26.8 | |
| 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)

