DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Juneau 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 | 24,316 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,654 | 100.0 | Native | 23,941 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 260 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 23,866 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 341 | 6.0 | State of residence | 18,000 | 74.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,983 | 52.8 | Different state | 5,866 | 24.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,516 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 75 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 554 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 375 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 78 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 199 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,457 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 176 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,182 | 7.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,361 | 14.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,076 | 43.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 375 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,236 | 19.7 | Europe | 186 | 49.6 | |
| Associate degree | 961 | 5.8 | Asia | 59 | 15.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,149 | 7.0 | Africa | 16 | 4.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 492 | 3.0 | Oceania | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 78 | 20.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.5 | (X) | Northern America | 35 | 9.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,879 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,282 | 100.0 | English only | 21,897 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 4,052 | 21.0 | Language other than English | 982 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,236 | 58.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 282 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 217 | 1.1 | Spanish | 366 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,667 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,350 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 398 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,110 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 86 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,067 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 74 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 24,316 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 293 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,484 | 117.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 108 | 36.9 | Arab | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 825 | 3.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 521 | 2.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,063 | 100.0 | Dutch | 439 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,041 | 16.8 | English | 2,245 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 940 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 183 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,322 | 42.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,484 | 100.0 | Greek | 44 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 437 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 87 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,225 | 100.0 | Irish� | 3,482 | 14.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,590 | 19.6 | Italian | 664 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 74 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 10,635 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 2,521 | 10.4 | |
| Percent employed | 81.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,793 | 7.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,899 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,557 | 39.9 | Russian | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 231 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 258 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,879 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,984 | 61.1 | Swedish | 538 | 2.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,821 | 38.6 | Swiss | 185 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 4,666 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 46 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 4,155 | 18.2 | United States or American | 940 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 2,792 | 12.2 | Welsh | 103 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,363 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 74 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,930 | 7.9 | |
| 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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