DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Roberts 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 | 887 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 217 | 100.0 | Native | 883 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8 | 3.7 | Born in United States | 880 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2 | 0.9 | State of residence | 650 | 73.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 122 | 56.2 | Different state | 230 | 25.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 60 | 27.6 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 25 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 4 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 623 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 16 | 2.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 46 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 178 | 28.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 193 | 31.0 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 32 | 5.1 | Asia | 2 | 50.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 125 | 20.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 33 | 5.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 50.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 843 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 707 | 100.0 | English only | 829 | 98.3 | |
| Never married | 76 | 10.7 | Language other than English | 14 | 1.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 535 | 75.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 7 | 1.0 | Spanish | 10 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 50 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 40 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 39 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 24 | 3.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 887 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 14 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 686 | 77.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7 | 50.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 666 | 100.0 | Dutch | 10 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 86 | 12.9 | English | 65 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 28 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 2 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 109 | 12.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 205 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 6 | 2.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 510 | 100.0 | Irish� | 103 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 60 | 11.8 | Italian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 61.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 450 | 88.2 | Norwegian | 13 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.8 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 128 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 58 | 45.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 34 | 3.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 11 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 843 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 448 | 53.1 | Swedish | 14 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 393 | 46.6 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 103 | 12.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 290 | 34.4 | United States or American | 136 | 15.3 | |
| Same state | 228 | 27.0 | Welsh | 6 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 62 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 149 | 16.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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