DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jack 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 | 8,763 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,103 | 100.0 | Native | 8,522 | 97.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 83 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 8,505 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 137 | 6.5 | State of residence | 7,265 | 82.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 968 | 46.0 | Different state | 1,240 | 14.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 600 | 28.5 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 315 | 15.0 | Foreign born | 241 | 2.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 98 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 85 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,830 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 156 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 474 | 8.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 939 | 16.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,131 | 36.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 241 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,289 | 22.1 | Europe | 10 | 4.1 | |
| Associate degree | 249 | 4.3 | Asia | 27 | 11.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 528 | 9.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 220 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 204 | 84.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,266 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,094 | 100.0 | English only | 7,720 | 93.4 | |
| Never married | 884 | 12.5 | Language other than English | 546 | 6.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,788 | 67.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 217 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 246 | 3.5 | Spanish | 497 | 6.0 | |
| Widowed | 545 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 212 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 357 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 34 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 631 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 365 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 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 | 8,763 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 145 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,973 | 68.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 93 | 64.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,706 | 100.0 | Dutch | 146 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 799 | 11.9 | English | 692 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 108 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 508 | 5.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,827 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 175 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,082 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 772 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 964 | 23.6 | Italian | 65 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 56.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,118 | 76.4 | Norwegian | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.0 | (X) | Polish | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,251 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 535 | 42.8 | Russian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 158 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 110 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,266 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,158 | 50.3 | Swedish | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,818 | 46.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,355 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,463 | 29.8 | United States or American | 1,630 | 18.6 | |
| Same state | 1,977 | 23.9 | Welsh | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 486 | 5.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 290 | 3.5 | Other ancestries | 1,648 | 18.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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