DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Polk 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 | 41,319 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,202 | 100.0 | Native | 40,914 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 496 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 40,724 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 534 | 5.2 | State of residence | 24,251 | 58.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,198 | 51.0 | Different state | 16,473 | 39.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,854 | 28.0 | Born outside United States | 190 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,120 | 11.0 | Foreign born | 405 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 147 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 220 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,725 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 185 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,323 | 4.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,588 | 9.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,395 | 41.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 405 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,081 | 21.9 | Europe | 147 | 36.3 | |
| Associate degree | 2,022 | 7.3 | Asia | 71 | 17.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,965 | 10.7 | Africa | 5 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,351 | 4.9 | Oceania | 9 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 80 | 19.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.9 | (X) | Northern America | 93 | 23.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,868 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 32,634 | 100.0 | English only | 37,688 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 7,153 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 1,180 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,638 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 317 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 332 | 1.0 | Spanish | 460 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,314 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 148 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,910 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 625 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 3,197 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 138 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,620 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 27 | 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 | 41,319 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 425 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,539 | 124.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 173 | 40.7 | Arab | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 595 | 1.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,231 | 5.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 30,466 | 100.0 | Dutch | 717 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,567 | 15.0 | English | 2,476 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,194 | 5.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 872 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 14,906 | 36.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,793 | 100.0 | Greek | 48 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 862 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,698 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,882 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,742 | 16.5 | Italian | 708 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 62.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 18,956 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 8,802 | 21.3 | |
| Percent employed | 83.6 | (X) | Polish | 1,350 | 3.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,820 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,256 | 38.8 | Russian | 153 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 342 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 526 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 51 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,868 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,884 | 61.4 | Swedish | 6,206 | 15.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,807 | 38.1 | Swiss | 184 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 7,624 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 7,183 | 18.5 | United States or American | 1,807 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 2,881 | 7.4 | Welsh | 207 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,302 | 11.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 177 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,028 | 7.3 | |
| 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)
