
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stevens 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 | 40,066 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,414 | 100.0 | Native | 39,112 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 558 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 38,819 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 569 | 5.5 | State of residence | 22,695 | 56.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,258 | 50.5 | Different state | 16,124 | 40.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,074 | 29.5 | Born outside United States | 293 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 955 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 954 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 290 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 521 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,984 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 433 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 889 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,895 | 11.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,229 | 35.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 954 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,743 | 26.0 | Europe | 482 | 50.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,246 | 8.6 | Asia | 119 | 12.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,588 | 10.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,394 | 5.4 | Oceania | 12 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 75 | 7.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.4 | (X) | Northern America | 266 | 27.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 37,615 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,931 | 100.0 | English only | 36,606 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 6,433 | 20.8 | Language other than English | 1,009 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,868 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 318 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 484 | 1.6 | Spanish | 355 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,848 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 123 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,480 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 412 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 3,298 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 161 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,721 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 120 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,066 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 661 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,688 | 101.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 406 | 61.4 | Arab | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 262 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 429 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 28,516 | 100.0 | Dutch | 946 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,570 | 19.5 | English | 4,702 | 11.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,620 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 419 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,184 | 20.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,374 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 587 | 5.7 | Hungarian | 101 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,996 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,252 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,697 | 21.4 | Italian | 1,209 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 43.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,299 | 78.6 | Norwegian | 1,940 | 4.8 | |
| Percent employed | 69.8 | (X) | Polish | 503 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,917 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 174 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,253 | 45.8 | Russian | 244 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 934 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,283 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 37,615 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,252 | 56.5 | Swedish | 1,326 | 3.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,093 | 42.8 | Swiss | 272 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 6,620 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 9,473 | 25.2 | United States or American | 3,804 | 9.5 | |
| Same state | 5,925 | 15.8 | Welsh | 411 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 3,548 | 9.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 270 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 7,520 | 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. | ||||||
- 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)

