DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dakota 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 | 355,904 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 101,596 | 100.0 | Native | 337,855 | 94.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,717 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 335,193 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,882 | 5.8 | State of residence | 237,668 | 66.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 48,156 | 47.4 | Different state | 97,525 | 27.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 22,644 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 2,662 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 17,197 | 16.9 | Foreign born | 18,049 | 5.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9,047 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8,456 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 224,313 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,593 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,272 | 2.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,948 | 4.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 52,806 | 23.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 18,049 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 57,352 | 25.6 | Europe | 3,827 | 21.2 | |
| Associate degree | 20,670 | 9.2 | Asia | 7,679 | 42.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 57,346 | 25.6 | Africa | 1,466 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 20,919 | 9.3 | Oceania | 163 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 3,778 | 20.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 93.2 | (X) | Northern America | 1,136 | 6.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 328,482 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 268,900 | 100.0 | English only | 303,539 | 92.4 | |
| Never married | 68,666 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 24,943 | 7.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 163,683 | 60.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,658 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 2,145 | 0.8 | Spanish | 8,499 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 9,961 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,382 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 8,066 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,167 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 24,445 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,452 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 14,381 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6,277 | 1.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,133 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 355,904 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,977 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 466,362 | 131.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,029 | 34.6 | Arab | 1,858 | 0.5 | |
| Czech� | 8,029 | 2.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6,181 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 251,692 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,971 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 31,776 | 12.6 | English | 25,173 | 7.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 14,963 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 4,306 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 139,083 | 39.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 87,733 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,069 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,003 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 1,023 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 213,544 | 100.0 | Irish� | 53,766 | 15.1 | |
| With a disability | 26,133 | 12.2 | Italian | 10,945 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 708 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 187,411 | 87.8 | Norwegian | 56,950 | 16.0 | |
| Percent employed | 87.0 | (X) | Polish | 16,909 | 4.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 25,721 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 126 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 9,392 | 36.5 | Russian | 3,077 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,596 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,270 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 721 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 328,482 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,006 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 178,360 | 54.3 | Swedish | 32,587 | 9.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 144,837 | 44.1 | Swiss | 1,966 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 65,973 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 1,692 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 78,864 | 24.0 | United States or American | 10,196 | 2.9 | |
| Same state | 50,678 | 15.4 | Welsh | 1,861 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 28,186 | 8.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 227 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,285 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 55,103 | 15.5 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Communication System (ECS), Division of Health Communication and Marketing (DHCM), National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
