DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McLeod 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 | 34,898 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,193 | 100.0 | Native | 34,114 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 677 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 34,011 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 512 | 5.6 | State of residence | 29,127 | 83.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,543 | 49.4 | Different state | 4,884 | 14.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,273 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 103 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,188 | 12.9 | Foreign born | 784 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 395 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 369 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,495 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 415 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,988 | 8.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,451 | 6.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,390 | 37.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 784 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,317 | 23.6 | Europe | 85 | 10.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,888 | 8.4 | Asia | 157 | 20.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,686 | 11.9 | Africa | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 775 | 3.4 | Oceania | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 491 | 62.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 47 | 6.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 32,472 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,929 | 100.0 | English only | 30,411 | 93.7 | |
| Never married | 6,291 | 23.4 | Language other than English | 2,061 | 6.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,713 | 62.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 809 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 234 | 0.9 | Spanish | 1,131 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,839 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 536 | 1.7 | |
| Female | 1,548 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 795 | 2.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,852 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 199 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,018 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 128 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,898 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 229 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 42,400 | 121.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 81 | 35.4 | Arab | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 1,728 | 5.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 842 | 2.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,183 | 100.0 | Dutch | 423 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,327 | 13.2 | English | 1,305 | 3.7 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 1,188 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 174 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 20,260 | 58.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,429 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 408 | 4.8 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,165 | 100.0 | Irish� | 2,700 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,379 | 12.4 | Italian | 284 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 71.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,786 | 87.6 | Norwegian | 3,954 | 11.3 | |
| Percent employed | 87.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,219 | 6.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,543 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,746 | 38.4 | Russian | 138 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 121 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 262 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 16 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 32,472 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,810 | 61.0 | Swedish | 2,703 | 7.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,437 | 38.3 | Swiss | 116 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,474 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,963 | 18.4 | United States or American | 1,068 | 3.1 | |
| Same state | 4,209 | 13.0 | Welsh | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,754 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 225 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,709 | 7.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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