
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fremont 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 | 35,804 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,531 | 100.0 | Native | 35,500 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 585 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 35,280 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 531 | 5.6 | State of residence | 19,208 | 53.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,495 | 47.2 | Different state | 16,072 | 44.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,458 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 220 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,462 | 15.3 | Foreign born | 304 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 78 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 175 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 23,053 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 129 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,065 | 4.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,434 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,658 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 304 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,651 | 24.5 | Europe | 83 | 27.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,708 | 7.4 | Asia | 62 | 20.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,075 | 13.3 | Africa | 21 | 6.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,462 | 6.3 | Oceania | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 109 | 35.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.8 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 8.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,400 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,891 | 100.0 | English only | 30,709 | 91.9 | |
| Never married | 6,624 | 23.7 | Language other than English | 2,691 | 8.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,583 | 55.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 667 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 359 | 1.3 | Spanish | 814 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,788 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 289 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,430 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 365 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 3,537 | 12.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,882 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 111 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 35,804 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 923 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,354 | 109.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 588 | 63.7 | Arab | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 205 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 714 | 2.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,956 | 100.0 | Dutch | 716 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,981 | 15.3 | English | 4,702 | 13.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,109 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 205 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,398 | 23.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,860 | 100.0 | Greek | 65 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 535 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 129 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,473 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,005 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,659 | 18.8 | Italian | 836 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 63.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,814 | 81.2 | Norwegian | 1,107 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.9 | (X) | Polish | 675 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,496 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 32 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,767 | 39.3 | Russian | 211 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 770 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,136 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 29 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,400 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,767 | 59.2 | Swedish | 956 | 2.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,434 | 40.2 | Swiss | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 7,308 | 21.9 | Ukrainian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,126 | 18.3 | United States or American | 1,869 | 5.2 | |
| Same state | 2,141 | 6.4 | Welsh | 298 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 3,985 | 11.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 199 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 11,006 | 30.7 | |
| 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)

