
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Johnson 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 | 7,075 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,652 | 100.0 | Native | 7,017 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 62 | 3.8 | Born in United States | 6,951 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 7.4 | State of residence | 3,527 | 49.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 842 | 51.0 | Different state | 3,424 | 48.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 492 | 29.8 | Born outside United States | 66 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 134 | 8.1 | Foreign born | 58 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 23 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 31 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,981 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 95 | 1.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 397 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,539 | 30.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 58 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,458 | 29.3 | Europe | 24 | 41.4 | |
| Associate degree | 385 | 7.7 | Asia | 1 | 1.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 822 | 16.5 | Africa | 7 | 12.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 285 | 5.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 26 | 44.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,726 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,736 | 100.0 | English only | 6,492 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 982 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 234 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,549 | 61.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 65 | 1.1 | Spanish | 150 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 479 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 399 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 78 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 661 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 335 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 7,075 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 56 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,247 | 102.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 39 | 69.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 85 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 154 | 2.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,334 | 100.0 | Dutch | 105 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,023 | 19.2 | English | 1,167 | 16.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 244 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,822 | 25.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,582 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 110 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 46 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 968 | 13.7 | |
| With a disability | 627 | 16.5 | Italian | 208 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 51.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,173 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 258 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 256 | 3.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,283 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 560 | 43.6 | Russian | 30 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 175 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 253 | 3.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,726 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,537 | 52.6 | Swedish | 205 | 2.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,129 | 46.5 | Swiss | 43 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,053 | 15.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,076 | 30.9 | United States or American | 401 | 5.7 | |
| Same state | 608 | 9.0 | Welsh | 131 | 1.9 | |
| Different state | 1,468 | 21.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 60 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 664 | 9.4 | |
| 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
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