DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Leavenworth 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 | 68,691 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,935 | 100.0 | Native | 66,861 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,444 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 65,253 | 95.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,098 | 5.8 | State of residence | 33,779 | 49.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,389 | 44.3 | Different state | 31,474 | 45.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,284 | 22.6 | Born outside United States | 1,608 | 2.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,720 | 19.6 | Foreign born | 1,830 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 630 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,020 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 44,792 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 810 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,788 | 4.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,253 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,188 | 33.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,830 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,397 | 23.2 | Europe | 717 | 39.2 | |
| Associate degree | 2,828 | 6.3 | Asia | 610 | 33.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,892 | 13.2 | Africa | 31 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 4,446 | 9.9 | Oceania | 7 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 408 | 22.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.5 | (X) | Northern America | 57 | 3.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 63,875 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 53,439 | 100.0 | English only | 59,846 | 93.7 | |
| Never married | 11,327 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 4,029 | 6.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 31,034 | 58.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,275 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 1,105 | 2.1 | Spanish | 1,879 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,680 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 556 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 2,027 | 3.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,401 | 2.2 | |
| Divorced | 7,293 | 13.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 410 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,841 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 615 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 275 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 68,691 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,069 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 68,467 | 99.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 571 | 53.4 | Arab | 72 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 345 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 241 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 47,980 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,500 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 10,315 | 21.5 | English | 6,933 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 1,906 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 400 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 16,731 | 24.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,808 | 100.0 | Greek | 93 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,213 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 136 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 33,408 | 100.0 | Irish� | 9,940 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,873 | 20.6 | Italian | 1,754 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 68.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 82 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 26,535 | 79.4 | Norwegian | 829 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,087 | 3.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,306 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 39 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,964 | 47.0 | Russian | 164 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,392 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,266 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 125 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 63,875 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 354 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 29,822 | 46.7 | Swedish | 1,130 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 32,077 | 50.2 | Swiss | 212 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 12,432 | 19.5 | Ukrainian | 88 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 19,645 | 30.8 | United States or American | 5,728 | 8.3 | |
| Same state | 7,505 | 11.7 | Welsh | 451 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 12,140 | 19.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 95 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,976 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 14,374 | 20.9 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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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