
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hot Springs 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 | 4,882 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,043 | 100.0 | Native | 4,818 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 49 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 4,802 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 2.6 | State of residence | 2,374 | 48.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 540 | 51.8 | Different state | 2,428 | 49.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 333 | 31.9 | Born outside United States | 16 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 94 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 64 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 30 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 52 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,515 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 148 | 4.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 408 | 11.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,270 | 36.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 64 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 842 | 24.0 | Europe | 14 | 21.9 | |
| Associate degree | 217 | 6.2 | Asia | 31 | 48.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 374 | 10.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 256 | 7.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 3.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 26.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,662 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,046 | 100.0 | English only | 4,505 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 650 | 16.1 | Language other than English | 157 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,576 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 49 | 1.2 | Spanish | 84 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 354 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 299 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 40 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 417 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 214 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 23 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,882 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 77 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,233 | 107.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 30 | 39.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 44 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 91 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,802 | 100.0 | Dutch | 123 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 717 | 18.9 | English | 891 | 18.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 114 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,233 | 25.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 993 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 94 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 26 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,660 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 687 | 14.1 | |
| With a disability | 542 | 20.4 | Italian | 129 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 66.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,118 | 79.6 | Norwegian | 287 | 5.9 | |
| Percent employed | 80.7 | (X) | Polish | 109 | 2.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 864 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 320 | 37.0 | Russian | 40 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 139 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 249 | 5.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,662 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,528 | 54.2 | Swedish | 150 | 3.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,129 | 45.7 | Swiss | 18 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 970 | 20.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,159 | 24.9 | United States or American | 299 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 513 | 11.0 | Welsh | 39 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 646 | 13.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 505 | 10.3 | |
| 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)

