DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carver 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 | 70,205 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,079 | 100.0 | Native | 67,806 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,169 | 10.3 | Born in United States | 67,461 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,604 | 7.6 | State of residence | 50,987 | 72.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,944 | 47.2 | Different state | 16,474 | 23.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,495 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 345 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,867 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 2,399 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,322 | 1.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 900 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 43,218 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,499 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,641 | 3.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,091 | 4.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,512 | 26.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,399 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,766 | 22.6 | Europe | 383 | 16.0 | |
| Associate degree | 3,388 | 7.8 | Asia | 771 | 32.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 11,285 | 26.1 | Africa | 112 | 4.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,535 | 8.2 | Oceania | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 856 | 35.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.4 | (X) | Northern America | 274 | 11.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 64,052 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 51,312 | 100.0 | English only | 60,072 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 11,448 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 3,980 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 33,891 | 66.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,484 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 393 | 0.8 | Spanish | 1,704 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,979 | 3.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 863 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,621 | 3.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,541 | 2.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,601 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 300 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,031 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 610 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 321 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,205 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 401 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 90,101 | 128.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 146 | 36.4 | Arab | 126 | 0.2 | |
| Czech� | 1,467 | 2.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,127 | 1.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 48,005 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,553 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,958 | 10.3 | English | 4,548 | 6.5 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 2,755 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 892 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 34,688 | 49.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,288 | 100.0 | Greek | 128 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,074 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 295 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 40,479 | 100.0 | Irish� | 7,834 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,151 | 10.3 | Italian | 1,497 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 88 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 36,328 | 89.7 | Norwegian | 10,613 | 15.1 | |
| Percent employed | 85.2 | (X) | Polish | 2,733 | 3.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,927 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 71 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,794 | 36.4 | Russian | 410 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 657 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 785 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 71 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 64,052 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 148 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,488 | 55.4 | Swedish | 6,916 | 9.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,529 | 43.0 | Swiss | 383 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 9,283 | 14.5 | Ukrainian | 142 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 18,246 | 28.5 | United States or American | 2,017 | 2.9 | |
| Same state | 12,700 | 19.8 | Welsh | 375 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 5,546 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,035 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 7,752 | 11.0 | |
| 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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