DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cass 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 | 30,438 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,138 | 100.0 | Native | 30,108 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 401 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 30,056 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 389 | 5.4 | State of residence | 22,021 | 72.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,561 | 49.9 | Different state | 8,035 | 26.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,970 | 27.6 | Born outside United States | 52 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 817 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 330 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 139 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 136 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,546 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 194 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,456 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,678 | 17.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,858 | 38.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 330 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,267 | 20.8 | Europe | 71 | 21.5 | |
| Associate degree | 822 | 4.0 | Asia | 33 | 10.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,714 | 8.3 | Africa | 8 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 751 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 205 | 62.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.0 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 3.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 28,613 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,290 | 100.0 | English only | 27,702 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 4,449 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 911 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,591 | 60.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 334 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 544 | 2.2 | Spanish | 717 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,407 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 294 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,058 | 8.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 127 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,299 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,128 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 30,438 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 817 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 24,309 | 79.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 491 | 60.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 47 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,863 | 100.0 | Dutch | 447 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,498 | 15.3 | English | 2,425 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 625 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 100 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,847 | 6.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,930 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 658 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,238 | 100.0 | Irish� | 3,360 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,172 | 25.7 | Italian | 249 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 49.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,066 | 74.3 | Norwegian | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 70.4 | (X) | Polish | 86 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,977 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,347 | 47.2 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 570 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 321 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 28,613 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 93 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,799 | 62.2 | Swedish | 124 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,705 | 37.4 | Swiss | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,166 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,539 | 15.9 | United States or American | 5,230 | 17.2 | |
| Same state | 2,936 | 10.3 | Welsh | 108 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,603 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 109 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 8,540 | 28.1 | |
| 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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